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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical struct
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John W. Eaton |
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure? |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:39:50 -0500 (EST) |
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Follow-up Comment #11, bug #57587 (project octave):
So at least in --traditional mode, I assume we would want to use physical
names.
If we did allow following symbolic link names as an option, would there be a
problem for reliability of scripts? Is that a problem for shells that have
this feature?
I think there may be other issues for Octave, like what is supposed to go in
the load-path? The canonical physical name of the file or or the symbolic
link? Should that depend on the setting for following symbolic links?
Since Octave borrows from readline and bash, I think we may have had some code
to track symbolic links in the past?
In any case, simply using the canonical physical directory name is far
simpler.
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, Rik, 2020/01/13
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, Mike Miller, 2020/01/13
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, Lars Kindermann, 2020/01/13
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, Lars Kindermann, 2020/01/14
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, Andrew Janke, 2020/01/14
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, John W. Eaton, 2020/01/14
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, Andrew Janke, 2020/01/14
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?,
John W. Eaton <=
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, Rik, 2020/01/14
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, John W. Eaton, 2020/01/14
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] Should symlinks follow physical structure or logical structure?, Andrew Janke, 2020/01/14
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57587] [Feature Request] Implement code for symlinks to follow logical structure, Rik, 2020/01/14