Hi,
I'm running CentOS 5 and running into a strange situation with symbolic links that I have never seen or noticed before.
If I create the following symbolic link: [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ pwd /home/eric [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ls Mail draft inbox queue sent trash [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ln -s Mail/inbox test [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ls test 1 2 3 4 5 [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ cd test [eric@eric-laptop test]$ pwd /home/eric/test [eric@eric-laptop test]$ ls 1 2 3 4 5 [eric@eric-laptop test]$ ls .. draft inbox queue sent trash
The strange behaviour here is when listing the parent directory (..). In this case, ls .. is listing the contents of Mail/ directory - not /home/eric.
In the past, I always recall being able to use the parent identified (..) to move up one level in the directory structure whether in a symlink or not. In this case, I would have expected ls .. to list the contents of /home/eric - not /home/eric/Mail.
Am I wrong? Am I seeing strange behaviour here? If so, is there a way to enable the behaviour I expect?
Thanks!
Eric