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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Guix + Hurd continuation
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:14:57 +0200
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Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis:

> Quoting Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2015-07-02 11:33:29)
>> I think it would work anyway, but would end up starting one instance of
>> /hurd/symlink for each symlink, which is suboptimal.
>
> No, /hurd/symlink doesn't quite work as expected.  Currently, the
> shortcut semantics are important for us.

Oh, good to know.  How exactly does it not work as expected?

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