[OpenAFS-devel] AFS/DFS Mount points

[Russ Allbery]

Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> writes:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> windlord:~rra/work> echo Testing > #foo
>> windlord:~rra/work> ln -s ./#foo bar
>> windlord:~rra/work> cat bar
>> Testing
>> windlord:~rra/work> afsversion windlord
>> Trying 171.64.19.147 (port 7001):
>> AFS version:  OpenAFS 1.2.10 built  2004-04-20 

> This isn't the same sequence of events.  #foo is created as a regular file 
> first.  Try my example.  Leave off the './' Its perfectly legal for users 
> to create files without a "./" in front.

> Your way creates a symlink target that doesn't start with "#"

That was the whole point.

I don't think you're reading other people's messages very carefully.  Not
only did you miss the point of this exchange of messages, but you just
slammed a proposed solution as not solving your problem, and then thanked
someone else for implementing exactly that solution.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>