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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5
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The following reply was made to PR i386/36546; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:29:00 -0600 (CST)

 On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
 
 > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:09:47 +0900
 > From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
 > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
 > Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
 > Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5
 >
 >
 > mrspock>  I found about five, try:
 >
 > Ok, here it is the list:
 >
 > 	/etc/termcap (-> /usr/share/misc/termcap)
 > 	/etc/rmt (-> /usr/sbin/rmt)
 > 	/usr/bin/newaliases (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper)
 > 	/usr/bin/mailq (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper)
 > 	/usr/sbin/sendmail (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper)
 >
 > mrspock>  I was installing a diskless workstation.  In the server I do
 > mrspock>  not have a floppy disk driver and I did not installed
 > mrspock>  mtools.  In the client I had the need of using floppies.  I
 > mrspock>  installed the client operating system in a disk slice and
 > mrspock>  mounted it in the server [let us say in "/dl" directory].  I
 > mrspock>  exported "/dl" with all its directories; installed mtools
 > mrspock>  and it crossed the file systems.  dl/usr/local/bin/mwrite ->
 > mrspock>  /usr/local/bin/mtools and I could not use mcopy in the
 > mrspock>  client.
 >
 > I assume that in this example, /dl is a "root" directory for this
 > diskless workstation, right?  If yes, /dl/usr/local/bin should be
 > treated as /usr/local/bin to this diskless workstation, so this
 > symlink should work as it should be...
 
 Sorry, I think I make something wrong.
 You are right it works.
 Nevertheless, wouldn't be better to have relative symbolic links?
 
 >
 > -- -
 > Makoto `MAR' Matsushita
 >
 
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