@LongLink

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:51:20PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> what the heck is 
> 
> # ls -li /usr/\@LongLink 
> 3 ----------  1 root  wheel  111 Jan  1  1970 /usr/@LongLink
> 

The result of unpacking a tar archive made with GNU tar, but using a
different tar implementation, perhaps?  GNU tar has a built-in bit of
trickery to get round the limitation of 100 character path names in
tar archives that uses such names as placeholders, until it can
replace the 'long link' with the actual required file name.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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