Hi Marcelo, On Wed, Nov 24 2004, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:16:15AM +0100, Norbert Gruener wrote: > > > Here my questions: > > > > - where is this behavior activated ? > > > > - can I deactivate this behavior ? > > > > - and if so how can I deactivate it ? > > That's handled by IO::All (IO::All::File). I was looking at the code, > and I can't quite spot why the file is being unlinked before being > written. AFAICS the code eventually ends up in something like: [snipped several lines of explanations] > > That io->file ends up being IO::All::File::file, and after this I get > lost :-P
thank you very much for your analysis of the program flow. I knew that it was using "IO::All::File" but I could not find any reason why the symbolic link got destroyed. But in the meantime Ian Langworth had send the following to the mailing list. > On Tue, Nov 23 2004, Ian Langworth wrote: > > On 23.Nov.2004 10:16AM +0100, Norbert Gruener wrote: > > > > > This behavior is very surprising :-(( > > > > Without digging into code, I would initially bet that RCS does > > not like this very much. Start by removing Kwiki::Archive::RCS > > from your plugins list and updating. This is exactly the reason for that behavior. After I had removed "Kwiki::Archive::RCS" the links continued to exist. Once more, thank you for your help, Norbert -- Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred. Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
