> On Jan 19, 2017, at 22:59, Xin Li <[email protected]> wrote:

…

> There are other issues with previous behavior, for instance, the file
> would inherit permissions from the symlink itself, while a more sensible
> behavior would be to use the permissions on the symlink target.
> 
> But I think it's reasonable to revert for now and do a exp-run so we
> know what would be broken.  Personally I have been running with this for
> a year and that made me thought it's safe :)

I think the lstat’s the incorrect part now — should open with 
O_NONBLOCK|O_RDONLY and fstat be used instead?
Thanks!
-Ngie

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