Messages in this thread | | | From | Stefan Monnier <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> | Subject | Re: Conditional SymLinks | Date | 16 Dec 1997 12:10:32 -0500 |
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Tall cool one <ice@mama.indstate.edu> writes: > - One must expand sym link lookups always, not just when they are > followed, otherwise your shell or programs might (will) get confused > when they read the link themselves and try to use it.
AFS does it differently: the expension of "@sys" is not in any way bound to symlinks, so the symlink points to "@sys" and the directory "@sys" indeed exists so tools don't get confused.
Stefan
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