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From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au>
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Subject: kern/27656: DEVFS has problems with symlinks to directories
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>Number:         27656
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Symlinks to directories cause contents of target directory to !
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 26 03:20:03 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Milton
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
<organization of PR author (multiple lines)>
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD janus.theinternet.com.au 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #9: S!
>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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