Re: hard link questions

[Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:07:21AM +0100, James Stevenson wrote:
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>  
> > 2. What are the circumstances where symbolic links do not work? I love
> > symbolic links but some utilities such as "tftp" doesn't follow the link.
> > This is usually frustrating since it takes time to determine what the
> > problem since most things work. (even NFS exported mounts)
> 
> Either the file that the link is to does not exist
> Or the program has used lstat to check if its a link and
> then that would be an application specific program with
> why the link doesnt work.

Probably, in the case of tftp, the program is chrooted, and can't access
the file that the symlink points to.

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Eduardo

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