Re: Odd symlink behavour

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:51:59 -0400


Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:20:48 -0400
From: James Hughes <jamesh@Interpath.com>

I have noticed an odd behavour with symlinked directories under the
2.0.22 kernel on the ext2 filesystem. When copying a file from a
symlinked directory using a relative destination, the file is copied not
to the location relative to the symlinked directory, but to the location
relative to the original directory.

I'm not sure I understand this; can you give me a set of commands which
when run demonstrates this?

Many thanks,

- Ted