On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Igor Zlatkovic wrote: > Oh, Adam, I would love the symlink, it would solve few other problems I > have in addition to this one. But the whole website is a web > application, served by a servlet container, currently Apache Tomcat. The > thing is, servlet's platform, Java, has no notion of a symbolic link > because it isn't supported on all systems it runs on. I would like to > keep it open. The site should still work if the operating system changes > underneath. Currently it runs on Linux and a symlink would work, but I > cannot guarantee that will remain that way. For example, should I one > day come across a Windows server with better finance-service ratio, I'll > run Tomcat there just the same. This is why a symlink is not an option.
Unexpected response, but understood. I believe even Windows now supports symlinks. :) I guess you could always duplicate the file. Have it once with the version number and a copy marked as "latest". It's not as clean a solution, but it is a portable one. -adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's "upgrading to php 5" and "php cookbook" avoid the holiday rush, buy your copies today! _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
