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From: snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy)
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Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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In article <3728@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz> neilb@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz (Neil F. Brown) writes:

>The thrust of my arguement is - do you ever really want to have a directory
>in two different places? i.e. with two different absolute path names that
>don't include the well-understood (I thought) `.' and `..'.

Seems this would be pretty common nowadays with the various multi-machine
filesystems out there (DFS/NFS/RFS(PD)/RFS(AT&T)/etc)

	ln -s //fileserver/project/src/foo/RCS RCS
	make foo

There are now two pathnames to RCS.  And the symbolic link should stay
*symbolic* so that the link will still work after the disk partitions
on fileserver get rearranged.  Just like writing shellscripts using
$HOME or ~/ instead of hard-coding your home directory.

>If you don't, then generalised mounting will solve your problems.

Is this generalised mount something a normal user can do, or do
you have to be root?  Do you have to remount everything everytime
a machine goes down?

Snoopy
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