Creating hardlinks for directories.

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 05:50, Vikram Goyal wrote:

> The big problem with it is that it's very difficult to configure and one
> has to tweak it's nose, ear, tail etc everytime something outof default
> from one's setup crops up. So I started configuring it through scripts
> which would scan the mailbox and configure it before starting. Then I
> thought others may take the benefit from the scripts, so I wrote them
> for general usage and inbetween I inserted a bit of code which would
> create a pseudo mailfolder which could be used by evolution to read the
> same mails. Till now evolution was behaving sanely and creating it's
> index files in the pseudo folder but recently its coder went ahead and
> changed code where it would follow the symlink even when told explictly
> that pseudo mailfolder is the folder of the mails. I think this is bad
> practise and destroys the concept soft linking and sane programming.
> Anyways the only solution which I think out of this is:

What happens if you push it down a directory level so the progams
always work in a real directory under the symlinked one?

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  Les Mikesell
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