[OpenAFS] problems with file links under Windows XP
Jeffrey Altman
jaltman@secure-endpoints.com
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:42:37 -0500
Dan Pritts wrote:
>
> cd /usr/local/bin
> ln -s ../pkg/foo-1.0/bin/foo foo
>
> using relative paths instead of absolute paths in the links allowed people
> to put the packages in different locations on their systems, perhaps
> allowing them to use multiple package trees from multiple providers, etc.
Danno:
Thanks for the post but its a different scenario. The question is about
the use of "." and ".." in the middle of a symlink. For example,
foo/../bar/./object
That is the scenario that *was* causing the problem.
Jeffrey Altman