Dear All, I would like to know how do you go about implementing symbolic links for minix. I know you will have to create a new i-node with a different mode value for the i-node. But I am confused with the part that you are supposed to create a datablock that has the path of the file to be linked. 1.How do I write a path into a datablock and read it. 2.Where do I have to make the change for my OS to read the correct blocks. ( Say If I give ln -s /bin/ls /usr/john/myls and the user types myls in the command prompt ). Any help would be appreciated. thanks.

what you're talking about is the backwardness of the minix filesystem. I can't understand why you choose to use such an obsolete OS when so many nice alternatives exist (freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, gnu/linux, etc etc) Some people say minix is good for learning about unix type systems, but the code is so obsolete that it is now good for nothing. I suggest you get a better system in which "ln -s" is a very very basic and small thing.