Spake craig@ctrust.com on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 03:31PM -0400:
> On 23 Jun 2004 at 15:20, Eric Jahn wrote:
>
> > On Wed June 23 2004 2:58 pm, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> > > lndir is probably what you want. lndir comes with X11.
> >
> > I just tried lndir on your suggestion and it appears to work well, but it must
> > continually be kept in sync with the "from" directory, which adds a lot of
> > complexity. ln -s I guess is what I want, but KDE doesn't see that ln-s
> > created link as a folder, but rather as a file, which causes problems because
> > I can't save a file to a destination it thinks is a also a file (when it's
> > actually a link to a directory). I'm not sure how other desktops deal with
> > directory links. Thanks!
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> that's what you get for using KDE :)
>
> done properly, konq shouldn't know the difference
> between ln -s and a real dir.
Not quite true.
Given the layout:
% tree
.
|-- baz -> foo/bar
|-- foo
| `-- bar
`-- test
% ls baz/..
bar/
baz/.. == foo/
So, a symlink to a directory isn't quite the same as a directory.
Shells and file managers have to jump through hoops to make .. appear to
point to the "right" place.
If you really want to link a dir, use this:
mount --bind olddir newdir
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