Peter Hardy wrote:
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:34, Jan Schmidt wrote:
quote who=Matthew Davidson
However, I maintain that's the way it _should_ work!
That's the way hard links work, but they can only link within the same file
system.
But you shouldn't add hard links to
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application - version/0.3/
-rw-r--r-- 1 mdavids mdavids0 2004-09-13 15:43 file
drwxr-sr-x 5 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004-09-13 15:51 version
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ cd
Hi,
I'm missing something very fundamental about symlinks. Say I want to
test some trivial little program I've written, but want to make it easy
to switch between revisions. I thought the following should work:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application -
version/0.3/
Matthew Davidson wrote:
Hi,
I'm missing something very fundamental about symlinks. Say I want to
test some trivial little program I've written, but want to make it easy
to switch between revisions. I thought the following should work:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 16:40, Ian Wienand wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application - version/0.3/
-rw-r--r-- 1 mdavids mdavids0 2004-09-13 15:43 file
drwxr-sr-x 5 mdavids mdavids 4096
quote who=Matthew Davidson
Funny; I've always assumed that the system treated a directory symlink
as a real directory that just happens to have exactly the same contents
as some other directory. I suppose I'd never put myself in a situation
to find out outherwise.
No, think of it more as a
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:34, Jan Schmidt wrote:
quote who=Matthew Davidson
However, I maintain that's the way it _should_ work!
That's the way hard links work, but they can only link within the same file
system.
But you shouldn't add hard links to directories. The ln utility will
only let
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:58:59AM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
Funny; I've always assumed that the system treated a directory symlink
as a real directory that just happens to have exactly the same contents
as some other directory. I suppose I'd never put myself in a situation
to find out
