Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:56:26 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Bug in mkdir(2) |
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > In other words, if foo is a dangling symlink mkdir("foo/") will merrily > > follow it. Which it shouldn't. > > Why? I think the follows symlink behaviour is the right one, and is > consistent with "open" etc. Are there any pressing reasons to not do it?
Oh, well... Looks like it's a really borderline case - everybody seem to be doing whatever they want here. In situations when the last component is a link and call normally wouldn't follow it adding slashes seems to be ignored on Solaris and forces the link expansion on Linux and 4.4BSD... I still think that following the link is bogus, but after all, if somebody wants to hang let's give him the rope...
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