[PATCH] udev - correct relative symlink

[PATCH] udev - correct relative symlink

[Kay Sievers]

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Here we remove the useless leading "./" of the linktargets.
Thanks to Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, who asked why we do this :)

We have now:

  /udev
  |-- camera0 -> video0
  |-- kamera0 -> video0
  `-- video0

thanks,
Kay

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===== udev-add.c 1.50 vs edited =====
--- 1.50/udev-add.c	Wed Feb 25 01:04:14 2004
+++ edited/udev-add.c	Thu Feb 26 23:11:36 2004
@@ -247,8 +247,6 @@
 				i++;
 			}
 
-			if (linktarget[0] == '\0')
-				strfieldcpy(linktarget, "./");
 			strfieldcat(linktarget, &dev->name[tail]);
 
 			/* unlink existing files to ensure that our symlink is created */

Re: [PATCH] udev - correct relative symlink

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:20:24PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Here we remove the useless leading "./" of the linktargets.
> Thanks to Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, who asked why we do this :)
> 
> We have now:
> 
>   /udev
>   |-- camera0 -> video0
>   |-- kamera0 -> video0
>   `-- video0

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h


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