On Sun, 24 May 2009 19:13:54 -0400
A. Costa agco...@gis.net wrote:
Revised suggestion, provide context, something like:
% realpath k
error: dangling symlink chain, '/tmp/links/k /tmp/links/j
/tmp/links/i /tmp/links/h /tmp/links/g /tmp/links/f
/tmp/links/e /tmp/links/d
For the hurried, skip to the bottom few lines: 'Revised suggestion'.
In between, some user-oriented thoughts on 'realpath' which unfortunately
might miss various salient points.
On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:54:04 -0400
A. Costa agco...@gis.net hastily suggested:
...if the error message read:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:13:30 +0200
Robert Luberda rob...@debian.org wrote:
% ls -l /dev/vbidefault
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root video 8 May 15 20:02 /dev/vbidefault
- /dev/vb1
Oh, shouldn't the link point to /dev/vbi1? I don't think /dev/vb1
exists on your system.
Checking:
%
Package: realpath
Version: 1.14
Severity: normal
My system has a symlink for a BT878 TV PCI card. 'ls -l'
and 'readlink -f' show that symlink, but plain 'realpath' fails
and 'realpath -s' returns the symlink target name:
% ls -l /dev/vbidefault
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root video 8 May 15 20:02
A. Costa wrote:
My system has a symlink for a BT878 TV PCI card. 'ls -l'
and 'readlink -f' show that symlink, but plain 'realpath' fails
and 'realpath -s' returns the symlink target name:
% ls -l /dev/vbidefault
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root video 8 May 15 20:02 /dev/vbidefault -
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