[Techtalk] infinite subdirs!!
Aaron Malone
aaron at munge.net
Sun Mar 14 23:37:00 EST 2004
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:33:00 -0600 (CST), Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> What if someone did:
>
> cd boot
> ln -d boot .
>
> wouldn't that effectively create an infinite directory loop?
Something like that is almost certainly what's going on. Gentoo, I
know, used to do this (they may still) because of the way their install
document was written. In the grub configuration instructions, they
describe a path to the kernel like:
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-${VERSION}
But if /boot is a separate partition (recommended in the Gentoo docs),
then the kernel is actually at (hd0,0)/kernel-${VERSION}. The boot/boot
link lets the same path work in either case.
--
Aaron Malone
aaron at munge.net
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