Re: Feature Request: make sane symlinks on remote host.

[Steve Youngs]

|--==> "KG" == Kai Gro <address@hidden> writes:

  KG> I meant the case where user/host is given in one file, but not in
  KG> both files.  But I think that's not what I said :-(

OK, I think I might be coming around to your way of thinking...

(make-symbolic-link "/address@hidden/path/file" 
                    "/path/symlink")
  => FILENAME -> remote;  LINKNAME -> local

(make-symbolic-link "/path/file" 
                    "/address@hidden/path/symlink")
  => FILENAME -> local;  LINKNAME -> remote

(make-symbolic-link "/address@hidden/path/file" 
                    "/address@hidden/path/symlink")
  => FILENAME -> remote;  LINKNAME -> remote

(make-symbolic-link "/path/file" 
                    "/path/symlink")
  => FILENAME -> local;  LINKNAME -> local

But I'm still not convinced that a symlink that spans different hosts
is a good idea.  It might be OK when done via NFS, but in that
situation the remote filesystem is mounted locally.

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