Symbolic Link in flash file system?

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How does one go about creating a symbolic link in a flash file system?

The normal command ‘ln -s’ doesn’t work.

Thanks for any help.

Tony

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Hi Tony,

The following paragraph comes from the QNX 4 Flash Filesytem 1.0 docs:

The flash filesystem supports the standard POSIX functionality
(including long filenames, access privileges, random writes, and
truncation) with the following exceptions:

You can’t create symbolic links.
You can’t rename files.
Access times aren’t supported (but file modification times and
attribute change times are).

These design compromises allow the flash filesystem to remain
small and simple, yet include most features normally found with
block device filesystems.

Barry


Tony Chang <tony@neontech.com> wrote:

How does one go about creating a symbolic link in a flash file system?

The normal command ‘ln -s’ doesn’t work.

Thanks for any help.

Tony