cp problem

[Assar Westerlund]

Todd Cohen <cohentl at clarkson.edu> writes:
> I figured it out.. since afs is a symlink to my directory, ../.. goes down
> the afs tree, not the local directory structure like I thought. So instead
> of ../.. being my local account on this box, it was
> /afs/clarkson.edu/users/c/o/. 

Right, shells do magic when following symbolic links to get .. to get
you back where you started.  The kernel doesn't get a chance to.

/assar