Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 16:53:21 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au Cc: terry@lambert.org, Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fix for symlinks in /tmp (fwd) FYI Message-ID: <32681871.4A7B7C1D@whistle.com> References: <96Oct19.085025%2B1000est.65042-172%2B209@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au>
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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" ?
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