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Cc: Ighighi <ighighi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: POSIXfy readlink() call
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On Friday 28 September 2007 10:39:56 pm Ighighi wrote:
> The POXIX prototype for readlink(2) is:
> ssize_t readlink(const char *restrict path, char *restrict buf, size_t 
> bufsize);

It can't simply be corrected as it would change the ABI and thus requires a 
new system call, etc.  However, do you really expect a symlink to be longer 
than 2^31 on a 64-bit machine?

-- 
John Baldwin