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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:07:07 -0700
From:	Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject:	POSIX-compliance of link(2)
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According to POSIX, creating a hardlink to a symlink is supposed to be
impossible, because link(2) is supposed to resolve symlinks before
performing the actual link.  See
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg08153.html.

$ touch a
$ ln -s a b
$ link b c      # Bug: c should be a hard link to a, not b
$ ls -l a b c
- -rw-r--r--  1 eblake None 0 Mar 15 19:04 a
lrwxrwxrwx  2 eblake None 1 Mar 15 19:04 b -> a
lrwxrwxrwx  2 eblake None 1 Mar 15 19:04 c -> a

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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