/tmp -> / ? Is that supposed to be there?

adrianhensler · Jan 2, 2009, 10:40 PM

Hi, I am sure this is a dumb question but if I don't ask I'll never know.

On my 1.2.1, I have this is /tmp:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 Dec 30 19:56 tmp -> /

Why does that link to the root? Is that normal? I removed it to see what happened and it came back on it's own.

edit: I think I had to reboot to get it back. Not going to try that right now but I think that was what happened.

cmb · Jan 7, 2009, 6:26 AM

code that creates that says:

# Setup compatibility link for packages that
# have trouble overriding the PREFIX configure
# argument since we build our packages in a
# seperated PREFIX area
# Only create if symlink does not exist.
if [ ! -h /tmp/tmp ]; then
ln -hfs / /tmp/tmp

adrianhensler · Jan 7, 2009, 2:14 PM

So that would be a 'yes'.

It just looked odd to me, just wanted to make sure it wasn't something weird.