Re: [fuse-devel] Re: Some questions/ideas about Fuse

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> You may like relative symlinks but there are many cases where relative 
> symlinks are evil and absolute ones are a must.  For example on all my 
> systems I only use absolute symlinks because many directories are 
> symlinked and relative symlinks then cause breakage, e.g.
> 
> /usr/src is a symlink to /mnt/home/src.
> 
> $ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6
> $ cd ../..
> $ pwd
> /mnt/home
> 
> So a symlink inside /usr/src that points out of /usr/src in a relative 
> manner would suddenly find itself in /mnt/home instead of in /usr and 
> would no longer resolve...  An absolute one going to /usr/... always 
> works.

The breakage you describe happens when you _change_ /usr/src to be a
link.

Yes, relative symlinks are more fragile when moving things around.
But if things don't move (which they should rarely do), they are
superior.

Miklos