From: Giovanni <gfalzoni@inwind.it>

To: Ben Gras <beng@few.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:05:13 +0100
Subject: Re: [Minix-devel-l] Symbolic link

Using an alias for cd to set the prompt to display the current path
breaks the cd command.  I use in .ashrc:
PS3=$PS1
hostname=$(expr `cat /etc/hostname.file` : '\([^.]*\)')
cd() {          ## shows current directory as prompt
   command cd "$@"
   PS1="$PS3$USER@$hostname:`pwd` > "
}

If you change the macro in shell.h to:
#define SYMLINKS  0
the correct behaviour is restored.  Could you verify?
I think that the ash package needs the patch.

commands/ash/shell.h

@@ -58,7 +58,17 @@
 
 
 #define JOBS	  0
+
+/* Set SYMLINKS to 0 by request of Giovanni Falzoni, who wrote the
+ * symlink patches for Minix; email to minix-devel-l of thu 3 nov.
+ */
+
+#if 0
 #define SYMLINKS  defined(S_ISLNK)
+#else
+#define SYMLINKS  0
+#endif
+
 #define DIRENT	  1
 #define UDIR	  0
 #define TILDE	  1