Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:40:22 -0500 (EST) | From | "C. Scott Ananian" <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #1405 |
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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 Linus wrote:
> No, 2.0.x also followed symlinks for create(), I'm fairly certain. It used > to be pretty painful to do, actually, but others did it, and I think > people even pointed to programs that wanted it done. > > But yes, 2.1.x would tend to do it more aggressively for other things than > just create().
Hasn't anyone else done: (in /usr/src)
[cananian@cananian src]$ ls -l linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 12 00:16 linux -> linux-2.1.71 [cananian@cananian src]$ rm linux [cananian@cananian src]$ ln -s linux-2.1.72 linux [cananian@cananian src]$ tar xzvf linux-2.1.72.tar.gz
and let tar create the directory through the link? This works on 2.0.x and 2.1.x certainly. --Scott @ @ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-oOO-(_)-OOo-=-=-=-=-= C. Scott Ananian: cananian@lcs.mit.edu / Declare the Truth boldly and Laboratory for Computer Science/Crypto / without hindrance. Massachusetts Institute of Technology /META-PARRESIAS AKOLUTOS:Acts 28:31 -.-. .-.. .. ..-. ..-. --- .-. -.. ... -.-. --- - - .- -. .- -. .. .- -. PGP key available via finger and from http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian
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