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SubjectRe: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:03:21PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > Except that these "symlinks" are expected to follow the target upon
> > renames. Which means that we either need a very messy scanning of
> > the entire tree on every rename (obviously not feasible) or we need
> > to store pointer to target and regenerate the path. Which, in turn,
> > requires holding a reference.
>
> Sounds an awful lot like ordinary hard links...

a) to directories?
b) userland really wants (relative) pathname here
c) still would require pinning the target down, so that doesn't simplify
anything.
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