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Subject: kern/27686: DEVFS has problems with symlinks to directories
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>Number:         27686
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Symlinks to directories cause contents of target directory to be treated as a directory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 27 06:30:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Milton
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD janus.theinternet.com.au 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #9: Sat May 26 21:44:08 EST 2001 root@:/export/src/sys/compile/marty i386
>Description:
Symlinks to directories cause contents of target directory to be treated 
as a directory, this obviously causes freakish problems with legacy apps.

>How-To-Repeat:
boot kernel with DEVFS

mkdir -p /usr/dev/dri
ln -fs /usr/dev/dri/ /dev/dri
cd /usr/dev/dri
mknod c 145 0 root:wheel card0
cd /dev
(if you have command complete on this works a lot easier..)
cd dri/card0/card0/card0/card0/card0/card0/card0...

>Fix:
None Available
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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