Re: Symbolic links behaviour
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:11:34PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote:
> Hello James,
> > Umm, perhaps I'm missing somthing, but I once had to do a similar thing. I
> > simply mounted the new partition in /hdd2, and created symlinks
> > /home->/hdd2/home, /usr/local->/hdd2/usr/local. Nested symlinks are
>
> Yes, that works ok. But now try the following:
['..' dosn't go where you expected it to sometimes.]
> The problem seems to be that the ../tmp in the link is interpreted as
> pointing to (in your case) /hdd2 and not to / as I was expecting.
My solution was to just deal with it at that point. I don't think relying
on /usr/.. being / is quite sane. Then again, reading that I don't think
that sentance is quite sane.
> Please let me know the result of the above commands.
I would, but that system has since died, and the drive containing / and
/hdd2 is not quite sane. Insanity rules the drives of the dead Jennifer.
Long live Jennifer!
-=- James Mastros,
Who is laughing his shoes off.
--
"My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that
makes you more human then any of us."
-=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
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