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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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