Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And it's not simply a matter of a personal preference for brevity: in
> some cases, the canonical paths are not portable from one host to
> another, whereas the logical paths are. This is due to NFS automounting
> gymnastics. I've heard that the same thing also happens with AFS.
Yes, AFS can be mounted in different places on different hosts, so while
people who run AFS pretty much always make:
/afs/cell.name/path/to/file
work regardless using symlinks or the like, canonicalizing the path may
result in something like:
/chroot/afs/cell.name/path/to/file
for instance on systems where AFS is mounted under a chroot, and that path
won't be portable.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
