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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:14:45 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Patch: lstat() adjustments for symlinks
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> There's something I learned a long time ago from Richard Stallman: It
> is not very useful to have more than a single index entry which all
> begin with the same substring and all point to the same place (or to
> very close places).  They are redundant: a person who uses the index
> lookup commands will find the place if only one of these index entries
> is left.

Maybe rewriting the whole thing like follows would be better?

@cindex Symlink support AT r{, new functions}
@findex __solve_symlinks AT r{, added to library}
@findex lstat AT r{, added to library}
@findex readlink AT r{, added to library}
...

@cindex Symlink support AT r{, adjusted functions}
@findex symlink AT r{, changed behaviour}
...

> Unless you have a good reason for this lack of a newline, please add
> one.  

OK I'll add it there. Note that testsuite data files intentionally do not 
contain ending newlines and I add them to CVS as binary files.

Laurynas