From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se>
Subject: Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function?
Date: 18 Jul 1997 09:51:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7iuy831up.fsf@peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 1997 03:02:33 +0200 (MET DST)"
Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:
> Is it possible to define the crosspost-link-function to use symbolic
> links instead of hard links? I can imagine that there could be
> trouble due to the different semantics of symbolic links.
>
> More precisely, will the following setting lead to trouble:
>
> (setq nnmail-crosspost-link-function 'make-symbolic-link)
I have been using this setting and have had no problems so far. I
find it necessary when on a distributed file system (for obvious
reasons).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-07-18 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-18 1:02 Mikael Djurfeldt
1997-07-18 13:51 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
1997-07-18 14:22 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-07-18 15:17 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
[not found] ` <wkn2nk5drp.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-21 8:01 ` SL Baur
1997-07-21 14:53 ` William M. Perry
1997-07-21 16:26 ` Dan Schmidt
[not found] ` <wkn2ng8594.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-22 14:12 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-22 15:44 ` William M. Perry
[not found] ` <wk7mejx7ea.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-23 14:45 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-23 15:19 ` Steve Baumgarten
1997-07-23 15:53 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-07-23 16:17 ` William M. Perry
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