[6198] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.1H: msgchk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Thu Oct 11 09:27:16 1990
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 09:27:05 EDT
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: quicksilver
Type and version: KN01 7.1H
Display type: PM-MONO
What were you trying to do?
run msgchk from my login scripts.
What's wrong:
/usr/new/mh/bin/msgchk: Too many levels of symbolic links.
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /usr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 512 Oct 9 09:58 /usr
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /usr/new
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 13 Oct 9 09:35 /usr/new -> /srvd/usr/new
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /srvd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 39 Oct 11 09:15 /srvd -> /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/@sys/srvd.71
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs
drwxrwxrwx 2 root 4096 Oct 10 16:38 /afs
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu
drwxrwxrwx 3 root 2048 Jul 18 18:57 /afs/athena.mit.edu
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system
drwxrwxrwx 5 root 2048 Oct 10 19:31 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/@sys
lrwxr-xr-x 1 14640 10 Apr 25 11:10 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/@sys ->decmips_30
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30
drwxrwxr-x 2 14640 2048 Oct 10 19:31 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71
drwxr-xr-x 13 root 2048 Aug 10 18:29 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr
drwxr-xr-x 29 root 2048 Aug 3 12:07 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr/new
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 2048 Aug 8 17:29 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr/new
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr/new/mh
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 19 Jul 26 11:46 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr/new/mh -> /usr/new/mh.6.6/bin
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr/new/mh.6.6
drwxr-xr-x 4 root 2048 Aug 3 1989 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr/new/mh.6.6
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% ls -ld /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr/new/mh.6.6/bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 2048 Jul 26 11:46 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/decmips_30/srvd.71/usr/new/mh.6.6/bin
[{1}quicksilver:~]
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What should have happened:
It should work. This example has 7 symlinks in the chain.
Experiments in /tmp indicated that the max # links is 8:
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp/bar]
% ls -l
total 1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jtkohl 1 Oct 11 09:24 foo -> .
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp/bar]
% ls -R
foo
foo:
foo
foo/foo:
foo
foo/foo/foo:
foo
foo/foo/foo/foo:
foo
foo/foo/foo/foo/foo:
foo
foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo:
foo
foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo:
foo
foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo:
foo
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp/bar]
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Please describe any relevant documentation references:
symlink(2)
