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To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: symbolic link curiousity in 3.6.0
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Greetings, Paul Eggert!

> On 3/31/25 12:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> ls(1) always potentially shows a past state anyway.

> Sure, but traditionally (and I'm talking about 7th edition Unix) a single
> output line of 'ls' corresponded to a state obtained atomically from the
> file system. I realize we can't always do that nowadays but the further we
> depart from it, the worse 'ls' users will be.

The link dereferencing is a courtesy of LS, and in no way it is guaranteed to
be stable in a long run.
As Corinna pointed out, even the state LS is displayed could be stale by the
time it reached the user's eyes.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 13:05:20

Sorry for my terrible english...


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