ln -s /var/tmp /tmp

Rich Kaul kaul at icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu
Tue Aug 21 01:02:49 AEST 1990


In article <MEISSNER.90Aug20102144 at osf.osf.org> meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
   Some (all?) versions of cp use lstat instead of stat to determine if
   the last argument is a directory, and fail if /tmp is a symlink.

Some.  We run a Sun 3/180 running SunOS 3.5 with /tmp symlinked to
another disk without problems.
-=-
Rich Kaul                         | It wouldn't be research if we
kaul at icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu    | knew what we were doing.



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