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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Aug 11 05:19:01 1990

From: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: marc@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 90 05:18:39 EDT

pit-manager, rt, 7.1E

If you attach an afs filesystem where another afs filesystem is
mounted, attach happily blows away the old symlink without warning:

<18> pit-manager:~> /bin/ls -ld /mit/watchmaker
/mit/watchmaker not found (No such file or directory)
<19> pit-manager:~> attach -t afs -m /mit/watchmaker -e /afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/watchmaker
attach: /afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/watchmaker linked to /mit/watchmaker for filesystem /afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/watchmaker
<20> pit-manager:~> /bin/ls -ld /mit/watchmaker
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           39 Aug 11 05:14 /mit/watchmaker -> /afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/watchmaker
<21> pit-manager:~> attach watchmaker
attach: /afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/watchmaker linked to /mit/watchmaker for filesystem watchmaker
<22> pit-manager:~> /bin/ls -ld /mit/watchmaker
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           38 Aug 11 05:14 /mit/watchmaker -> /afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/watchmaker
<23> pit-manager:~> attach
filesystem             mountpoint              user              mode
----------             ----------              ----              ----
marc                   /mit/marc               marc              w
e40test-sys-71         /srvd                   marc              n
sipb                   /mit/sipb               marc              r
consult                /mit/consult            marc              r
gnu                    /mit/gnu                marc              r
x11r4                  /mit/x11                marc              r
OldXfonts              /mit/OldXfonts          marc              w
/afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/watchmaker /mit/watchmaker         marc              w
watchmaker             /mit/watchmaker         marc              r
<24> pit-manager:~> detach /mit/watchmaker
detach: /afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/watchmaker detached
<25> pit-manager:~> detach /mit/watchmaker
detach: filesystem watchmaker already detached
detach: watchmaker detached
<26> pit-manager:~> /bin/ls -ld /mit/watchmaker
/mit/watchmaker not found (No such file or directory)

		Marc

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