Howard Chu writes: >> BTW, possibly "deref(erence)" is a confusing name for the control, >> since it is apparently not related to aliases. > > Oh please. Nor is it related to referrals or search references, and yet > these are all references, and "dereference" applies to them equally.
Actually the docs do use different names for that - "follow"/"chase" referrals, or "chain" on the server side, vs. "deref"erence aliases. So if this is a new operation, I figured it wouldn't hurt to look for another word for whatever it is doing. But sure, it's no big thing. And in that regard it can already be a bit confusing that it's aliases and not referrals & search references which are "deref"erenced. -- Hallvard
