From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 23:18:21 -0600 From: EBo To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: References: <32ae739c22eb486931dd7bb207949f0e@swcp.com> <79c8278e45da12f71df95a90c8df246f@swcp.com> Message-ID: <2b0a9dc985ebfb6facf2befb7a8e5a82@swcp.com> User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Tvx update Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2b5c173c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:03:18 -0800, Nick LaForge wrote: >>> you'll get no argument from me on that score. > >> Ok. I'll remove it in the next version. > > I think he was responding to my hyperbolic statement there. There's > no reason not to use symlinks if we can't bind things anyway. Your > option 2 just links to the root dir in /usr/local which is just fine > provided the permissions are in place and the /usr/local dir is not > just a bunch of symlinks to individual files in /tmp/tcloop (actually > the case in my tinycore install, not that I care). The only problem > with symlinks here wasith your option 1 where cp was making copies of > symlinks instead of original files beacuse you used 'cp -HRp' instead > of 'cp -LRp'. ok. Thanks. I think there is a bit more going on than the s/H/L/ issues. Need to look into it though. I also started a FAQ a couple of days ago, but there is not enough in it to really post yet. Documenting the issues with persistent home/local/etc. is one of the things on my todo list. Thanks for testing all this BTW. EBo --