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From: mhorstm@swbatl.swbt.com (Mark Horstman 5-3417)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: SunOS 4.1 and symbolic linked directories??
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 7 Jun 90 17:09:32 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 206, message 5

Something strange is happening with my symbolic directory links on my SS1
running the new recently installed SunOS 4.1.  When I cd to a directory
that is a symbolic link to another directory and then back out of it (cd
..) I'm in the other directory tree.

$cd /u1/guest
$pwd
/u1/guest
$rm dir
rm: dir: No such file or directory
$ln -s /usr/test/dir dir
$ls -al dir
lrwxrwxrwx  1 guest        23 Jun  7 10:36 dir -> /usr/test/dir
$cd dir
$pwd
/u1/guest/dir
$cd ..
$pwd
/usr/test

BTW: /u1/guest is not a symbolic link.  Is this what is supposed to
happen?

                             Mark Horstman                
                             Southwestern Bell Telephone
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