[GRASS-dev] No longer able to open a mapset by symbolic link

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Tue Apr 3 04:27:27 EDT 2007


Glynn Clements wrote on 04/03/2007 06:28 AM:
> Joel Pitt wrote:
>
>   
>> I just retrieved the latest weekly CVS snapshot for GRASS and found
>> I'm no longer able to access mapsets that are referred to by symbolic
>> links in linux.
>>
>> Is this intended behaviour (possibly related to the windows port)? Or a bug?
>> ...
> AFAIK, having symlinks to mapset directories has never been
> intentionally supported; it just happened to work.
>   

I am long term user of such mapset links, it would be a major problem for us
to no longer have this possibility. Just to express interest in this
issue...

Markus


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