ddl@tardis.UUCP (Dan Lanciani) (08/23/84)
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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
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ddl%tardis@harvard.ARPAomsi@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