Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 00:29:33 +0900 From: Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@wafu.netgate.net> To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: shigio@wafu.netgate.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improvemnet of ln(1). Message-ID: <199807141528.IAA18558@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from sbabkin@dcn.att.com of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:35:40 -0400." <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B60@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com > > > ln -s `pwd`/src/sys /tmp > > > > > > Isn't it simpler ? > > > > But it forces user to use absolute symbolic link. > > > Do the relative symbolic links make any sense outside of subdirectory > hierarchy ? > Of course, you can do it as ../usr/src/sys and it may be useful in some > cases but > would it make any sense here? Do you mean a symbolic link including root directory is useless? You are right. My example was bad. How about this example? % ln -sr /usr/src/sys/kern/tty.c /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kern/tty.c % ls -l !$ lrwxrwxrwx 1 shigio bin 33 Jul 14 23:56 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kern/tty.c -> ../../../../../src/sys/kern/tty.c This symbolic link is solved in the '/usr' subdirectory. So, you can mount /usr file system at any point. -- Shigio Yamaguchi (Freelance programmer) Mail: shigio@wafu.netgate.net, WWW: http://wafu.netgate.net/tama/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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