Re: [branden: Re: Bug#24853 acknowledged by developer (I have a "doc"
branden@purdue.edu (Branden Robinson) wrote on 25.07.98 in <[🔎] 19980725001259.A327@purdue.edu>:
> > % ls -al /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 24 09:40
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc -> ../../../doc/X11
> one respect to the package, and if you didn't have /usr/X11R6 mounted from
> a different device they'd work fine.
Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see how this works. Mount points should not
make a difference here. ".." for a mount point is exactly the same as in
the middle of a file system.
The only way there would be a difference would be if one of these
directories were in fact a symlink, not a mount point. ".." for symlinks
*doesn't* work.
The reason we're always talking of mount points are stuff like the
automounter, where you mount the fs in a different place and put a symlink
in the place where you want to see it. And maybe some NFS weirdness wrt.
symlinks.
AFAICT, mount points *per se* are completely safe.
So: where is the other symlink in this picture?
MfG Kai
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