symbolic links to dirs are not evaluated when needed
 

So if on a harddisk (tied to a directory structure on windows) I have a symbolic link to another directory. Then I cant cd into that symbolic link before the directory has been listed.

So:
makedir sys:test/file
Makedir sys_test/link sys:test/file soft

Then reboot and directly:
cd sys:test/link

it will complain that the object doesn't exist

now do:
dir sys:test
cd sys:test/link

and it works, so there obviously is a bug.

Did you check under some filemanager if such a folder was created? This should not work :blased

Which AmigaOS version does this require? At least 3.1 makedir does not seem to have soft parameter. (For me default is always 3.1)

Probably it should read Makelink instead of Makedir and also sys:test instead of sys_test.

yes makelink sorry

and as far as making test/file yes it was just a little shorthand and the name should really be drawer as it is obviously not a file

Ping ?

theres more than 1 makelink, so their still probably waiting for you to list which OS and which makelink variant, ie: if you used the native one bundled with your os or 1 of the alternatives on aminet. Havent tried on WinUAE yet but on FS-UAE makelink doesnt function as expected when using Directory mode harddrives, and only functions right when using a native filesystem, does work linking directory mode source TO a native filesystem destination like RAM: however..

https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=111215

Fix examples first. I won't attempt to guess, even if it looks obvious.

Wouldn't that be kind a security risk for the host Machine?

For example, just as an dumb Idea, create in AmigaOS a "Windows" directory in your Amiga "C:", use Amigas Makelink to make a symbolic link to that. This now creates at the host directory a symbolic link to you know to where. Remove the Amiga sides target directory and have fun accessing that host directory through that link.

makedir sys:test
makedir sys:test/targetdir
cd sys:test
makelink link sys:test/targetdir soft

Then reboot and then this will fail:

cd sys:test/link

if you then do:

dir sys:test

then the cd will work if you try it again:

cd sys:test/link

Unfortunately that won't work with WB 3.1 (see my first post). EDIT: Does makelink from Aminet work?

UAE directory filesystem only allows creation of softlinks (softlink target) that are already accessible from Amiga side (same or another mounted directory filesystem).

Sorry yes it requires AmigaOS 3.2.
I've tested it with makelink from aminet and that works too I mean it can create the link - the bug is still there

I've amended my example a bit as makelink wants it first argument to be a name and not a full path and the second argument should be a fully qualified path

https://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae.7z should fix it (warning: development version). But I don't have any link test cases so it is someone else's problem to confirm it :)

Thanks I'll try it out and give you some feedback

It works ! Thanks