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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5
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The following reply was made to PR i386/36546; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc: <eduardo.viruena@esfm.ipn.mx>, <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 00:43:11 -0600 (CST)

 On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
 
 > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:32:32 +0900
 > From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
 > To: eduardo.viruena@esfm.ipn.mx
 > Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5
 >
 >
 > eduardo.viruena> There are several absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD
 > eduardo.viruena> 4.5-RELEASE.
 >
 > How many symlinks did you find?  Is the list available for others?
 
 Hello,
 
 I found about five, try:
 
 	find / -type l -exec ls -l {}\;  | grep " /"
 
 > What's problem you encountered with such links?
 
 I think the real problem happened when I load a package [mtools],
 not with the bin distrubution itself.
 
 I was installing a diskless workstation.  In the server I do not have
 a floppy disk driver and I did not installed mtools.  In the client
 I had the need of using floppies.  I installed the client operating system
 in a disk slice and mounted it in the server [let us say in "/dl"
 directory].  I exported "/dl" with all its directories; installed mtools
 and it crossed the file systems.  dl/usr/local/bin/mwrite ->
 /usr/local/bin/mtools and I could not use mcopy in the client.
 
 
 > Any examples?
 
 read above.
 
 
 >
 > -- -
 > Makoto `MAR' Matsushita
 >
 
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