Symbolic links on SCO ODT

Victor Gavin vic at grep.co.uk
Thu Feb 14 20:48:40 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb11.172618.9659 at objy.com> bruce at opus.objy.com (Bruce Reed) writes:
>Does anyone know if SCO ODT supports symbolic links in V1.1? I know they
>didn't in V1.0 (probably the worst omission in ODT and the only <UNIX> NFS
>distribution I've seen without them.)

On ODT 1.0, you cannot create sym-links, but if the filesystem you've
NFS mounted has sym-links, then ODT will follow them (but it won't
report them in an `ls -l' listing). This means that the kernel
``supports'' sym-links, but the user utilities don't (ie `ln -s'
doesn't work).

		vic
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