Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:22:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Implement AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag for linkat |
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > Where does POSIX require that? IIRC, it was along the lines of "application > can't rely on kernel doing the right thing", not "kernel must do the > wrong thing"...
Well, the patch as sent in does seem sane, as long as glibc doesn't start defaulting to the insane behaviour. Giving users the _ability_ to link to the symlink target is certainly not wrong, regardless of any standard. Doing it by default is another matter.
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