19 Nov
1997
19 Nov
'97
1:27 a.m.
Matt Lewin wrote:
Relative links will mostly work, it is just that ./ and ../ links are suppressed. The idea is to avoid cycles which Windows will not recognize are happening. So for example, if I did
mlewin:/u/mlewin/html $ ln -s ../images images
will not work because there exists a possibility that in /u/mlewin/images I may have done
mlewin:/u/mlewin/images $ ln -s ../html html
which will create a nasty cycle as Windows recursively descends through
\filer\mlewin\html \filer\mlewin\html\images \filer\mlewin\html\images\html \filer\mlewin\html\images\html\images
There is an option to enable cyclic symlinks, but the default is off. The 4.3 release docs explain all this.
Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com