From: Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id: <199912171830.NAA11111@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject: Re: The 5th symlink patch
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:30:26 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <385A69D1.F8B20F7A@softhome.net> from "Laurynas Biveinis" at Dec 17, 99 06:50:25 pm
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Bonjour M. Laurynas Biveinis

> There are two differences from the 4th patch:
> 
>    - I've found BSD manpage talking about symlinks, and there was mentioned
> another function which does not follow symlinks - lchown(). It was missing 
> from my implementation. Now it isn't. (As well as its documentation).

I did not follow your discussion, but some functions that comes to mind
lstat()
lchown()
symlink()
readlink()
link() unlink() // hard links

Are you detecting loops ? and returning ELOOP
Can you link directories ?

Bye,

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alain