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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: strange symlinks 
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Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 12:39:28 +0200
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     > The next one may be a general 4.4 problem...
     > assumption: /tmp/foo does not exist, /tmp/bar is a symlink to /tmp/foo.
     > chdir("/tmp/bar") fails with ENOENT, but at the same time
     > mkdir("/tmp/bar", 0x777) fails with EEXIST.
     
     I think this is a generic result of the path component item evaluation
     order.  I guess the only thing to say is that "according to the code,
     this is correct behaviour"  8-).

Yeah. There's more to this, actually. If you do an open(O_CREAT)
(on SunOS4.1.3; haven't got the FreeBSD box with me now) you get a normal open
file that the symlink points to. IN the light of the mkdir, this is a wee bit
inconsistent, isn't it ?
     
     > Third, whatever happened to the fchdir() syscall that I vaguely remember
     > having had in (at least) 386BSD0.1 ?
     
Sorry - please delete all my ranting on this one.

Bernard