On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 23:02:50 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > So disallowing null symlinks would actually unbreak /etc/malloc.conf. > > Further debugging shows that the main bug is in the kernel. > stat(2) on a null symlink bogusly succeeds and classifies the symlink > as a directory. ln(1) just believes this so it rewrites > "ln -fs aj /etc/malloc.conf" to "ln -fs aj /etc/malloc.conf/aj". > The kernel then resolves /etc/malloc.conf/aj to /aj. And this should be fixed, as I say from the very beginning. (strangely, most people here mistreat null symlinks we discuss as non-null symlinks with non-existen targets) -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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