ddl@tardis.UUCP (Dan Lanciani) (08/23/84)
[] The problem with the symlink(2) call is that its entry in sysent.c is within an '#ifdef UCB_NET'. The local syscall returns [EINVAL] when it gets a request for an index greater than the maximum valid local syscall. As far as I can tell, the #ifdef in question is totally unnecessary as the unused entries have already been defined as nosys. (It may be that someone wanted to save a little table space?) At any rate, I have removed it and symlinks work fine for both normal and networking kernels. There is a bug in fsck which causes the blocks allocated to symlinks to be returned to the free-list when a disk is checked. This can be fixed by REMOVING the #ifdef's associated with SPECIAL file types and symlinks, i.e., symlinks are not special. Dan Lanciani ddl@tardis ...!{wjh12,harvard}!tardis!ddl ddl%tardis@harvard.ARPA
omsi@reed.UUCP (OMSI) (01/26/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Am trying to get symbolic links to work with 2.9BSD with no success. Get an 'Invalid argument' error when I try a 'ln -s foo bar'. Have recompiled ln and defined UCB_SYMLINKS in the kernal. Is there some other define needed to get this to work? Thanx, Bob Ankeney tektronix!reed!omsi