Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:32:19 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Implement AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag for linkat |
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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.
As long as it doesn't get tied to overloaded environment variable that might be needed for other purposes... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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