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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:46:27 -0700 (PDT), Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> said:

> In anycase, I can't imagine that POSIX actually intended null
> symlinks to act in any particular way

The standard specifies precisely how pathname resolution is supposed
to behave.  FreeBSD should conform to the standard, even if some of
the consequences are somewhat unexpected.  (At least the semantics are
consistent!)

-GAWollman


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