Dear Batsayan Das, In message <ofacaf4a93.614659b5-on652577ab.00476762-652577ab.0049f...@tcs.com> you wrote: > > The above url says "in the root filesystem symbolic links are used to > point to their new locations" , my question is how a symbolic link to be > created when the source of the symbolic link is not present in the file > system
Just create it - the "ln" command does not care whether the target of the link actually exists or not. > How cramfs deal with hot plugged device entries in /dev directory? Exactly as mentioned above: we use symlinks to redirect accesses to such files to a writable file system. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." - Walt West _______________________________________________ eldk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/eldk
