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Re: Realpath & context sensitive symlinks
- To: Michael Eager <eager at mvista dot com>
- Subject: Re: Realpath & context sensitive symlinks
- From: James Antill <james at and dot org>
- Date: 27 Sep 2001 17:07:20 -0400
- Cc: Glibc Alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <3BB372A6.D33CBCEE@mvista.com>
Michael Eager <eager@mvista.com> writes:
> This macro
> substitution only occurs when the file system is following a symlink,
> otherwise the macro is left unmodified.
Why? Is it done just so you can display it "raw" in ls. I can't think
of any other use for the "raw" value and a bunch of things probably
rely on stuff being valid from readlink() (just hope nothing changes
uid etc. before it uses them).
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