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From: Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...> - 2003-07-15 14:12:53
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Hello Eric, Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 2:00:35 PM, you wrote: > 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. My knowledge about NFS is not so great (it just grew yesterday...), but AFAIK the absolute symlink to any file in the server tree will always be accessible (if it is exported at all) as nfs://server/<path> This is especially true if it points to a file in the same directory in which it lives. However making absolute errors go ooops is no great deal, just enter a return -22; in the right line in the if-statement, around lines 340 iirc. This is kind of policy, not necessarily technical decision. Decide as you like, I'm fine without absolute symlinks anyway. Just in response to Ken's mail I though about them at all, previously there were only relative links implemented. Best regards, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service <an...@ho...> |
