Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 06:21:38 -0600 (CST) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym links Message-ID: <199503211221.GAA22054@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199503210923.BAA00144@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 21, 95 01:23:28 am
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> Well, that's how POSIX would have it...but in FFS they are stored in the > inode if short and in a regular disk block if long. They're only made to > appear like they have no inode associated with them. That's bogus. Really. Hiding implementation details like this is a VMSish thing to do, IMHO. If the symlink's really got an inode use it.
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