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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users A query on soft-link Post 302956906 by RudiC on Monday 5th of October 2015 08:10:07 AM
Old 10-05-2015
A soft link allows you to put nearly any text into it, not necessarily paths and files. So why take the extra effort to check and disallow a self reference? You'll hit a brick wall anyhow sooner or later:
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a: Too many levels of symbolic links

 

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BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1) 					   User Commands					   BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)

NAME
build-jar-repository - create a symbolic link to a JAR SYNOPSIS
build-jar-repository [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... JAR DESCRIPTION
Build a JAR repository in the named directory by copying files or creating symbolic links OPTIONS
If no option is specified the default action will be to create symbolic links -c, --copy copy files -h, --hard create hard links -p, --preserve-naming try to preserve the names of the original JAR files (in case of a nested hit the slashes in the path will still be replaced by underscores) using this option makes any future automated repository rebuild impossible, and implies -c unless specified otherwise -s, --soft, --symbolic create symbolic links (default) --help display help text EXAMPLES
build-jar-repository . jndi will create a symbolic link to the JNDI JAR in the current working directory build-jar-repository -h /tmp oro will create a hard link to the ORO JAR in /tmp AUTHOR
Written by Nicholas Mailhot and David Walluck REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/) build-jar-repository (jpackage-utils) 1.7.0 March 2006 BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)
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