Re: [AVFS] ~/.avfs and symlinks

Peter <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:52:09 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.avfs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:21:44 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

>> ~/foo -> /mnt/foo
>> cd ~/foo/bar
>> ls ~/.avfs/$PWD/file.tar#
>> will return an error
>> 
>> ls: /home/peter/.avfs//home/peter/foo/bar/file.tar#: No such file or directory
> 
> Hmm.  How about doing 
> 
>   ls ~/.avfs/`/bin/pwd`/file.tar#
> 
> The kernel does know the already resolved pwd, only the shell is using
> the unresolved one.
> 
> Miklos
> 
No, `pwd` and $PWD yield the same result and avfsd returns the same error.

Is there no way to force avfs to accept a literal path regardless of
whether or not it is a symlink?



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