Marcus Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know what a leading '$' is (or was, or will be) supposed > to do in symbolic links / mount points in AFS? Or how to get rid of > them? I've just discovered that: > ln -s '$foo:bar' ,t > makes *very* interesting objects... Just to warn people (and probably spoil all of Marcus' fun!), you really don't want to run that command inside AFS! It creates a file that is always "not found" so can't be removed by any reasonably simple means (short of recreating the volume). In AFS 3.4, symbolic links created in this manner will be handled just the same as any other symbolic link. I don't really know the history of this one. Joe Jackson, AFS Product Engineer, Transarc Corp.
