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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:08:03 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Adrian Browne <Adrian@nu-earth.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcsh.cat
Message-ID:  <200106151308.OAA07742@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:57:56 %2B1000 (EST)

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> P>    The string pointed to by path1 shall be treated only as a character
> P>    string and shall not be validated as a pathname.

I have heard on several occasions of peope using symlink(2) to
atomically store some small piece of information for locking purposes.
(Symlink was more reliably atomic over NFS than other methods.)  So it
is possible that changing this might break something.

-- Richard

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