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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:08:30 +0300
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: absolute symlinks
On 24-Mar-2011 22:30:02 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > Link Points to Should point to
> Do you have use cases where these differences result in some error?
> They are not obvious for me. There would be a difference in case of
> a chroot filesystem, but I cannot see how these files can be located
> inside of chroot.
No errors, but they are very annoying when making the live flash - it
still requires some handwork.
And, of course, absolute links theirself are mauvais tone...
> > /dev/fd /proc/self/fd ../proc/self/fd
> > /dev/core /proc/kcore ../proc/kcore
> On Ubuntu these links are absolute.
Do you really think that's a good behavior to follow?
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