[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Feb 22 08:38:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:27:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>The problem is that a shortcut has to contain a DOS path, obviously.
>The new strategy is as follows:

If this is the case, then we can't use .lnk files as the default symlinks.
DOS paths are not UNIX paths.  The mount table will be bypassed in the symlinks.

cgf

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