From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 16 22:18:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0BB37B408 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5H5I6V44586; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:18:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200106170518.f5H5I6V44586@harmony.village.org> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] Cc: David Wolfskill , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:35:15 +0200." <20010615183515.36f81380.steveo@eircom.net> References: <20010615183515.36f81380.steveo@eircom.net> <200106151331.f5FDVCo94946@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:18:06 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010615183515.36f81380.steveo@eircom.net> "Steve O'Hara-Smith" writes: : I would argue loud and long that changing that *would* be broken. There : is never a guarantee (or even an implication) that a symlink points to a : valid directory entry (think unmounted filesystems, NFS ...). I find it hard : to imagine why creation time should be special in that regard. And it would break /etc/malloc.conf! I'd have to agree 100% here. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message