Realpath & context sensitive symlinks

James Antill james@and.org
Thu Sep 27 14:07:00 GMT 2001


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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