carllp@diku.UUCP (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) (06/25/87)
Re: All the stuff about symbolic links, I send part of the manual
for tcsh (a very good shell!!!!!).
NAME
tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line
editing
[...]
DESCRIPTION
Tcsh is an enhanced version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell csh
(1). It behaves like the C shell, except for the added util-
ities of:
[...]
OTHER THINGS
Symbolic links to directories are no longer a one-way trap-
door, i.e. the parent directory link .. will reference the
directory the symbolic link is in, not the actual parent
directory. The actual parent directory is referenced by ./..
instead. This works only in the builtin directory changing
commands, i.e. cd, chdir, pushd, pd, and popd. If you want
to set the shell's idea of the current path to be the
correct absolute path, use the new builtin pwd with the -s
option.
[...]ht@unisol.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas) (06/27/87)
In article <3294@diku.UUCP> carllp@diku.UUCP (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) writes: > Symbolic links to directories are no longer a one-way trap- > door, i.e. the parent directory link .. will reference the > directory the symbolic link is in, not the actual parent > directory.... Now, this does not look like any of the tcsh versions I have seen or worked with... Where did you get your tcsh from anyway? Not that I want it, but curious... --Haral Tsitsivas
carllp@diku.UUCP (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) (06/29/87)
In article <1018@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes: >What version of tcsh is this? The version that is running at Project >Athena doesn't have this "feature". As I've said before, I LIKE being >able use the one-way trap door aspect of sym links. I hope there's a >flag to turn off this "feature". RCS INFO Header = $Header: tcsh.1,v 1.1 85/02/11 21:28:15 paul Exp $ I don't know of any such flag, but you can always use ./.. if you want the trap door aspect. Regards Carl-Lykke