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Re: symlink weirdness


From: Roger Dahl
Subject: Re: symlink weirdness
Date: 16 Sep 2004 12:02:12 -0700

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message 
news:<jwvu0tzkxry.fsf-monnier+gnu.misc.discuss@gnu.org>...
> > 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

Not really... If you're in ~/bin/ and you need to go to ~/, 'cd ..'
will get you there regardless if ~/bin/ is actually a symlink to
somewhere else in the filesystem.

Roger

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