Bug #39636 symlinks on windows, relative/absolute
Submitted: 24 Sep 2008 20:48 Modified: 9 Jan 2009 18:19
Reporter: Hans Ginzel Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.0 OS:Windows
Assigned to: MC Brown CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: symlink

[24 Sep 2008 20:48] Hans Ginzel 
Description:
Specify, please, in
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/windows-symbolic-links.html
if the path in a text file C:\mysql\data\foo.sym must be absolute or can be relative and which directory would be used as base for relative symlinks.

How to repeat:
edit C:\mysql\data\foo.sym

Suggested fix:
probably add word "absolute" accordingly
[28 Sep 2008 11:55] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for a reasonable documentation request.
[9 Jan 2009 18:19] MC Brown 
The documentation has been updated. 

Ideally, the paths should be absolute, but if they are relative, they will be relative to the .sym file you create.