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Old 10-16-03, 15:32
inglais inglais is offline
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symbolic links

I'm looking at creating a symbolic link to another symbolic link. Is there anything that I should be wary of or a reason (besides the potential confusion) I shouldn't do this?

i.e.
mkdir /export/home/test1
ln -s /export/home/test1 link2test
ln -s link2test /a/link/doubleln

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Old 10-17-03, 02:48
karthi_tvr karthi_tvr is offline
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Link to links are very much possible, but the only problem is the confusion they cause. But it sometimes is helpful too. For eg, you can create a link to a file/executable and create multiple links to this link. Incase the location of the file/exe changes, you only have to modify one link. Other links follow the path through the actual link.
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