X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=rdpsrv;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Xserver%2Fconfig%2Futil%2Flndir.man;fp=Xserver%2Fconfig%2Futil%2Flndir.man;h=b56bbf263e9dc1c5c37b6745e0d18d06f6e6f9fe;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=b6e6afccf37f4ad0515ef2a698f714fdf1bf23b3;hpb=e3340a110a3b01756b8e67531395a33b40a17d37 diff --git a/Xserver/config/util/lndir.man b/Xserver/config/util/lndir.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b56bbf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Xserver/config/util/lndir.man @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +.\" $XConsortium: lndir.man /main/10 1996/09/28 16:16:45 rws $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 X Consortium +.\" +.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining +.\" a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the +.\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including +.\" without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, +.\" distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to +.\" permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to +.\" the following conditions: +.\" +.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be +.\" included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +.\" EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR +.\" OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, +.\" ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR +.\" OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. +.\" +.\" Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall +.\" not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or +.\" other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization +.\" from the X Consortium. +.\" +.TH LNDIR 1 "Release 6.1" "X Version 11" +.SH NAME +lndir \- create a shadow directory of symbolic links to another directory tree +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B lndir +[ +.B \-silent +] [ +.B \-ignorelinks +] +.I \|fromdir\| +[ +.I todir +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.I lndir +program makes a shadow copy +.I todir +of a directory tree +.I fromdir, +except that the shadow is not +populated with real files but instead with symbolic links pointing at +the real files in the +.I fromdir +directory tree. This is usually useful for maintaining source code for +different machine architectures. You create a shadow directory +containing links to the real source, which you will have usually +mounted from a remote machine. You can build in the shadow tree, and +the object files will be in the shadow directory, while the +source files in the shadow directory are just symlinks to the real +files. +.PP +This scheme has the advantage that if you update the source, you need not +propagate the change to the other architectures by hand, since all +source in all shadow directories are symlinks to the real thing: just cd +to the shadow directory and recompile away. +.PP +The +.I todir +argument is optional and defaults to the current directory. The +.I fromdir +argument may be relative (e.g., ../src) and is relative to +.I todir +(not the current directory). +.PP +.\" CVS.adm is used by the Concurrent Versions System. +Note that RCS, SCCS, CVS and CVS.adm directories are not shadowed. +.PP +If you add files, simply run +.I lndir +again. New files will be silently added. Old files will be +checked that they have the correct link. +.PP +Deleting files is a more painful problem; the symlinks will +just point into never never land. +.PP +If a file in \fIfromdir\fP is a symbolic link, \fIlndir\fP will make +the same link in \fItodir\fP rather than making a link back to the +(symbolic link) entry in \fIfromdir.\fP The \fB\-ignorelinks\fP flag +changes this behavior. +.SH OPTIONS +.IP \-silent +Normally \fIlndir\fP outputs the name of each subdirectory as it +descends into it. The \fB\-silent\fP option suppresses these status +messages. +.IP \-ignorelinks +Causes the program to not treat symbolic links in \fIfromdir\fP +specially. The link created in \fItodir\fP will point back to the +corresponding (symbolic link) file in \fIfromdir\fP. +If the link is to a directory, this is almost certainly the wrong thing. +.IP +This option exists mostly to emulate the behavior the C version of +\fIlndir\fP had in X11R6. Its use is not recommended. +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +The program displays the name of each subdirectory it enters, followed +by a colon. The \fB\-silent\fP option suppresses these messages. +.PP +A warning message is displayed if the symbolic link cannot be created. +The usual problem is that a regular file of the same name already +exists. +.PP +If the link already exists but doesn't point to the correct file, the +program prints the link name and the location where it does point. +.SH BUGS +The +.I patch +program gets upset if it cannot change the files. You should never run +.I patch +from a shadow directory anyway. +.PP +You need to use something like +.nf + find todir \|\-type l \|\-print \||\| xargs rm +.fi +to clear out all files before you can relink (if fromdir moved, for instance). +Something like +.nf + find . \|\\! \|\-type d \|\-print +.fi +will find all files that are not directories.