Re: [Savannah-hackers] .symlinks

[Loic Dachary]

Nic Ferrier writes:
 > Can I point across directories with .symlinks?
 > 
 > I've got a .symlinks file in Classpathx that looks like this:
 > 
 > >>>>
 > classpathx.html   index.html
 > jaxp.html  jaxp/jaxp.html
 > <<<<
 > 
 > 
 > is this acceptable because it doesn't seem to work.

        http://savannah.gnu.org/savannah.html#Web%20CVS%20Symbolic%20links

        .symlinks do not cross directories. I did it this way mostly to
prevent security problems. It would be good to change the implementation
of the symlinks script to allow this under certain conditions and test
it. You'll find the script in gnudist:/home/www/bin/symlinks.

        Cheers,

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