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udev - correct relative symlink

PATCH Applied Kay Sievers 2 participants 2 messages Feb 26, 2004 – Feb 28, 2004

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PATCH 1/1 udev - correct relative symlink

Here we remove the useless leading "./" of the linktargets. Thanks to Olaf Hering <[email protected]>, who asked why we do this :)

We have now:

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

thanks,
Kay

===== udev-add.c 1.50 vs edited =====

udev-add.c +0 -2
@@ -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 */
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Quoted 9 lines · Kay Sievers

Here we remove the useless leading "./" of the linktargets. Thanks to Olaf Hering <[email protected]>, who asked why we do this :)

We have now:

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

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h

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