Strange symlink and mv interaction

[Parker, Ron]

> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]

> Tilde expansion is usually done by the shell.  However, 
> judging from the
> rest of your message, you meant the above to say
> 
> 	mv -- --1.2 ../tla--escapes--1.2

I did.

> This is the expected behavior.  The symlink takes you to the 
> directory,
> but the ".." uses the actual parent directory entry, which 
> points to /c.
> If you want this to work seamlessly, create an actual 
> "~/src/myprojects"
> directory, and use 'mount' to map /c/MyProjects to
> /home/rdparker/src/myprojects.


Thanks, I don't know why I didn't do that in the first place.

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