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List:       fuse-devel
Subject:    Re: [fuse-devel] Fully-qualified source path in symlink()
From:       Vlad <vladc6 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2008-02-18 19:55:47
Message-ID: 637155.59420.qm () web54404 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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--- Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > When the current directory is the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem,
> > attempting to create a symlink using the command "ln -s test.txt
> > testln.txt" yields a call to symlink() for source "test.txt" and
> > destination "/testln.txt". Shouldn't the source be a
> fully-qualified
> > local path?
> 
> No. The symlink() syscall does not interpret the source path at all,
> it just stores it verbatim into the symlink.  You can even create
> symlinks to nonexistent files or directories.

OK, thanks for the explanation.

Vlad


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