17 Jul
2000
17 Jul
'00
2:20 p.m.
Oleg Broytmann wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Chris Withers wrote:
How does it work in Unix? (that seems to be a good baseline :-)
On UNIX symlink is not a link - it is a text file, that contains a name of resource. The name could points to nowhere, or to resource, even to other symlink...
So, it is up to the operating system to interpret the soft link and redirect accordingly. Shane's soft-link code looks like the object-oriented equivalent; a bit of text that knows where to redirect callers to. -- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited http://www.cat-box.net