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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links in Sys 5.3.1
Message-ID: <3109@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 08:54:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 08:54:02 1987
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In article <3680027@nucsrl.UUCP> naim@nucsrl.UUCP (Naim Abdullah) writes:

>How does one create symbolic links in System V, rel. 3.1 ?
>Also, what are the equivalents of the 4.3bsd lstat(2) and
>S_IFLNK (in the st_mode word of the structure returned by stat(2)) ?

This is joke, right?

There are no symbolic links in System V Release 2 or 3 or 3.1 or anything
else. Period. You can only create hard links within a file system, and
only root can link to a directory.

I hope symbolic links do make it into System V soon. We have a modified
5.3.1 kernel with symbolic links, but it's an internal version.
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

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