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Article #145Re: Any one using symbolic links under 2.9?
From: Charles LaBrec
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 1984 06:30
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 1984 06:30
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Yes, we have an 11/24 running 2.9 with UCB_SYMLINKS defined, and it works, but a few comments: 1) ln must be recompiled (and check to see if whoami.h or localopts.h is included, so as to get the above define. (same for ls, rm, to name a few) 2) fsck must be fixed--there is a #define for SPECIAL (I think, it's been a while and I don't currently have access to the source). It is a big conditional and LNK is one of them. Well, this makes fsck think a symlink takes no blocks, so it misses the block allocated to the symlink. 3) Just remembered, ls does not initialize the structure member l_linkto (I think) to NULL from malloc, so sometimes an ls -l prints some garbage as the linked-to field of a non-symlink. Charles LaBrec UUCP: pur-ee!Physics:crl, purdue!Physics:crl INTERNET: crl @ pur-phy.UUCP
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Physics:crl From: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec) Newsgroups: net.bugs.2bsd Subject: Re: Any one using symbolic links under 2.9? Message-ID: <1401@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 02:30:51 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1401 Posted: Fri Aug 24 02:30:51 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Aug-84 06:21:00 EDT References: <2101@usceast.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Physics Dept. Lines: 20