[SLUG] Broken symlinks

[Gavin Baker]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:00, aardvark llama wrote:

> >'.DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain -> /home/al/
> > .DCOPsever_localhost.localdomain_:0'
>
> This (I think) looks like a self referential symbolic link -- like for 
> example 5 above.

nah, the file names are different in this case.

On recent kde versions,
~/.DCOPserver_hostname__0 has information about the dcopserver for the
first display (which can be many screens)
~/.DCOPserver_hostname_1 the dcopserver for the second display etc.

These used to be named like ~/.DCOPserver_hostname_:0 (X style display
names), but some filesystems can't contain an ':' in file names, so they
changed the ':' for an '_' and the symlink is around for backwards
compatibility. (Dont quote me on this).

Regards,
Gav