[chef-dev] Re: Re: CHEF-2398 : adding a cwd attr to the link resource

[Laurent Desarmes < >]

Maciej Pasternacki 
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> On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:50 , Laurent Desarmes wrote:
>
>>> Could you explain why this is useful? I haven't used them in ages, so I 
>>> can't
>>> remember what they're good for (besides surprising me).
>>> 
>>> In particular, I have no idea what the example in the ticket is supposed 
>>> to
>>> do.
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> the example in the ticket is supposed to maintain a symbolic link in
>> /boot called "linux" with a relative reference to "linux-3.0.0"
>> 
>> 
>> to make it simple, can you see the difference between:
>> 1) ln -s /boot/linux-3.0.0 /boot/linux
>> vs
>> 2) cd /boot; ln -s linux-3.0.0 linux
>
> You don't need to chdir(), 1) is equivalent to in -s linux-3.0.0 /boot/linux

2) you meant.

> Relative symlinks are relative to the directory where the symlink is 
> placed, not getcwd.

yep that's correct. (don't know about win32)
I'll have a look this evening, thanks.
(my patch doesn't fix the issue at all anyway...)


-- 
Laurent