Re: Tracking files the right way
Re: Tracking files the right way
- Subject: Re: Tracking files the right way
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:54:50 +0200
On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 03:09 , Bill Bumgarner wrote:
Too many apps on OS X end up expanding symlinks, mount points, and the
path to the home directory in fashions that become really ugly to the
user and potentially break things significantly as the user moves from
one host to another and uses mounted filesystems to do so.
That's what symlinks are for: to keep paths invariant, whatever setup and
mountpoints you happen to use (if neede at all -- so far as I recall, I've
always *mounted* so that paths were invariant).
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Ondra Cada
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