Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:33:12 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Bug in mkdir(2) |
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On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 04:59:10PM -0400, Douglas Weimer wrote:
> Following symlinks can be useful at times. It is the root-owned > processes responsibility to check for symlinks in /tmp. This argument > can be used for any file manipulation in a globally writable directory. > Both mkdir("foo") and mkdir("foo/") should follow symlinks for > consistency purposes.
Ick, no. Whatever mkdir("foo/") does, mkdir("foo") should return EEXIST if foo is a symlink. Anything else would be plain weird.
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