Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:50:48 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_vnops.c src/sys/sys fcntl.h Message-ID: <19980407165048.57366@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199804061738.KAA02766@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 10:38:44AM -0700 References: <199804061738.KAA02766@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> to not follow symlinks, but to open a handle on the link itself(!). > As strange as this might sound, it has several useful applications Does it only not follow symlinks if the symlink the target of the open, or it won't follow *any* symlink? Quite often I've used symlinks to put /tmp and /var/mail to other partitions (yet non-dedicated to that usage, so a normal mounting on /tmp or /var/mail was not appropriate). -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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