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Aurelien Jarno schrieb:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:22:20PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>   
>> Am 18.04.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
>>
>>     
>>> For historical reasons, qemu system on i386 is called qemu instead of
>>> qemu-system-i386. This seems to confuse users.
>>>
>>> This patch installs it as qemu-system-i386, and create a compatibility
>>> symlink qemu -> qemu-system-i386 as some tools may call it that way.
>>> We can change or remove this symlink after a few releases when all the
>>> tools have migrated to this new name.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
>>>       
>> In general a good idea imo, but don't just assume you can create  
>> symlinks on a given file system. Git uses hardlinks and copying as  
>> fallbacks iirc.
>>     
>
> For hardlinks that's clear. For symlinks, what (file)systems are you
> thinking of?

NTFS?