Hi! On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 03:06:33PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > That won't fail, because it always follows symlink (only test -[Lh] > won't). Well, I had systems (or better: shells, as test is usally built-in) were test -d did _not_ work when the tested object was a link to a directory. > But "ls .." will list the physical parent, not the logical. That's true, but how often is this a real problem, especially when talking about $HOME? Or would you rather prefer having 5000 home directories on one filesystem (or one single filesystem for each), instead of using (amd and) symlinks? Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! binder@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
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