Comments on: Create links with absolute paths in Linux

Comments on: Create links with absolute paths in Linux http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2010/01/create-links-with-absolute-paths-in-linux/ An attempt at organizing my thoughts ... Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:03:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mark http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2010/01/create-links-with-absolute-paths-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-255 mark Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:03:36 +0000 http://scrolls.mafgani.net/?p=420#comment-255 Unfortunately there's one problem to this. touch /tmp/readme.txt mkdir /tmp/a cd /tmp/a ln -s ../readme.txt /home/user/readme.txt cd .. rmdir /tmp/a cat /home/user/readme.txt won't work. Also if that directory is not accessible due to permissions instead of being removed, also breaks the link. Unfortunately there’s one problem to this.

touch /tmp/readme.txt
mkdir /tmp/a
cd /tmp/a
ln -s ../readme.txt /home/user/readme.txt
cd ..
rmdir /tmp/a
cat /home/user/readme.txt

won’t work.

Also if that directory is not accessible due to permissions instead of being removed, also breaks the link.

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