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From: <ebi...@ln...> - 2003-07-15 12:59:23
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"Anselm Martin Hoffmeister" <an...@ho...> writes: > > I looked at your code. I think your implementation isn't quite correct. > > The semantics of a symlink are: > > > > If the link starts with / then it's an absolute path and replaces the > > filename and the operation is retried. > > > > Otherwise it's relative and appended to the current directory and the > > operation is retried. > > Correct. I'm going to fix this immediately. > The relative part is ok, isn't it? SO I'll just insert an if-statement for > the absolute path part. I would suggest that we error on an absolute symlink. I have a very hard time seeing how an absolute symlink could be used properly in this context. I guess in an nfs-root situation it might work. But I keep having visions of absolute symlinks pointing to a different location on the server than on exported nfs subtree. Eric |
