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- From: klode@syslab.csd.uwo.ca (Claude Morin)
- Subject: Re: symlinks in 0.97pl2
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:59:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.205903.6121@julian.uwo.ca>
- References: <1992Aug31.020059.21670@athena.mit.edu>
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- SunOS 4.1.1 allows the following:
-
- r-x--x--x ... ff*
- lrwxrwxrwx ... bob -> ff*
-
- rubble[400] % cat bob
- #!/bin/sh -
- echo hello
- rubble[401] % ./ff
- hello
- rubble[402] % ./bob
- hello
-
- So I guess that linux is 'broken'. Perhaps linux is displaying correct POSIX
- behaviour...
- ---
- Claude Morin
- (that's "klode", NOT "clod"...French :-)
- London, Ontario, Canada
-