On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:32, Juan Pedro López Sáez wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a simple question: is there any problen in accessing a firebird
> database file providing a linux symbolic link in the connection string?
>
> Of course, the symbolic link is properly linked to a "real" firebird
> file on the same machine.

As long as the DB is on a local disk not on a network mounted drive,
then you should be ok.

I am not 100% on that but I have never run into any problems yet.
However I mainly do it in Java. I have not used the symlinks in C++? I
will have to try that, but it should work just the same.

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