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Re: symlink weirdness
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: symlink weirdness |
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Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:53:17 GMT |
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> When would the result created without looking at the file system not
> work? I don't know if it's true for all OSes, but GNU/Linux can have
> symlinks use other symlinks, so is any special attention to symlinks
> needed?
Very easy:
cd; ln -s share/bin .
(file-relative-name "~/" "~/bin/") will return "../" whereas "../../" is
needed to go from ~/bin/ to ~/.
Stefan
Re: symlink weirdness, Barry Margolin, 2004/09/13
Re: symlink weirdness, Tim Smith, 2004/09/14