Re: [Netatalk-admins] Re: how do I make symbolic links works in netatalk 2.0?

[Duncan S. <Dun...@ci...>]

Hi,

On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 01:20  pm, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> Maurice Volaski wrote:
>> Thomas Kaiser wrote:
>>> There is no such thing like a symlink on both HFS(+) and AFPFS.
>>
>> Am I misreading that?
>
> To clarify things: I speak about the fact that a symlink on HFS+ (and
> additionally on AFP filesystems as well) is just a simple file.
> Interpretation of the file's metadata and contents happen on the client
> side. Please compare with the docs if in doubt:
>
>     <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#Symlinks>

The HFS+ implementation of symlinks really isn't different than any 
other Unix file system I'm familiar with - in particular, the Berkeley 
UFS - put the link destination in the file, and set the "S_IFLNK" bit 
on the permissions.

Anyway, as promised, I am reporting back on my results...

I managed to get netatalk-2.0-rc2 to work for me, using the CDB CNID 
scheme.  I had to make sure all the links had the same names as their 
destinations otherwise Mac OS 9 would get particularly upset.  But my 
main problem of symlinks disappearing when clicked on seems to have 
gone away - I'm not sure what I did differently compared with when I 
tried the same thing last week.

Thanks again to Thomas, Bjoern, Dan and everyone else who contributed 
to my better understanding of the matter.

Cheers,


Duncan.

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