> On 27 May 2010, at 21:16, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > If BSD had > > implemented ".." correctly (i.e. walk back up one level in > > the given path), symlinks would have been more useful and > > less surprising. > > This "correct" implementation of symlinks has never seemed right to > me. Linux / Bash used to do it the "wrong" way as recently as 2001 if > not more recently. I was much more comfortable with the "wrong" way, > with symlinks just being a portal to another place entirely, and I > wish I could pinpoint why. Having the path "faked" after following a > symlink just feels badly wrong, and I wish I could put a semantic > reason on it.
would you deconstruct bind/mount points as well? recursively? that way lies vms/windows. - erik
