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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Date: 12 Mar 93 16:27:25
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 12 Mar 1993 19:13:21 GMT
In article <1nqnchINNerd@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>This would be ugly, confuse Emacs, and break current programs.
emacs gets plenty confused on my system when i specify files in
"/usr/src/../foo" or whatever, because /usr/src is a symlink to
someplace else (w/ a longer name... 8-).
don't avoid doing things because it breaks emacs; emacs is plenty
broken, in certain ways, regardless...
chris
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