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From: rml@hpfcdc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Semantics of symlinks and distributed FS
Message-ID: <5980002@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 20:22:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 20:22:07 1987
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I'm curious as to how various systems which support both a distributed
filesystem and symbolic links handle the semantics of a symlink on the
server machine with an absolute pathname.  I'm aware that Sun's NFS
parses the symlink on the client side, and was wondering about other
systems, especially Eighth Edition.

		Bob Lenk
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