On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 09:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Paul Goyette <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, David Holland wrote: > > > rmind@ points out that it's possible to create zero-length symlinks. > > As zero-length symlinks aren't sensible, this should probably be > > prohibited. Does anyone see any reason they shouldn't be? > > Prohibiting them seems reasonable to me - I cannot imagine any sensible > use of zero-length symlinks. > I'm pretty sure I once used it in a test case to check for ENOENT leading to the needed behaviour, without having to make sure the tested file really wasn't present. Only afterwards did I discover it's not portable, so I had to change it anyway. But is there any reason to disallow it? kind regards dieter
