March 20, 2002
4:16 p.m.
<<On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:36:26 -0800 (PST), Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> said:
How about something like the following algorithm? It should handle the real-world cases.
(1) try hard link and exit if this succeds (2) try to make a copy (like "cp"), and exit if this succeeds (3) report a failure
With my OS-vendor hat on, we don't document `zic -l' anywhere, and if anyone asks about it, it's not supported. We support two timezone installation utilities: the full-screen `tzsetup', and `cp'. Another disadvantage to symbolic links that you didn't mention is that, if the zoneinfo repository is not on a single-user filesystem, then localtime() doesn't work when the system is in single-user mode. -GAWollman