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Subject: Re: fix for symlinks in /tmp (fwd) FYI
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Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> I'm really after feedback answering the question "what legitimate use
> for symlinks does this change in semantics break". If too many things
> break then the patch is useless.
> 
> So far I've received pretty positive feedback. Linus even likes it :-)
> 
how about 
"It breaks Posix semantics"
?