From owner-cvs-sys Tue Apr 7 16:51:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22590 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-sys) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22544; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (d60-090.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.90]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA13468; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id XAA10548; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:50:49 GMT Message-ID: <19980407165048.57366@nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:50:48 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm 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 Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199804061738.KAA02766@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199804061738.KAA02766@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 10:38:44AM -0700 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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)