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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:52:47 +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: symlinks in _dxe_load()
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Hmm.. I'm not sure this is a good idea.  _dxe_load was meant to be as
> small as possible.  Why does it need to support symlinks?

Consistency. But if this is too high price, I don't mind doing nothing
there.

> (And, btw: if you replace _open with open, you need to use O_BINARY,
> since that's how _open opens the file.  

OTOH, if we would add symlink support here, it would be better to leave
_open() and add __solve_symlinks(). The overhead should be smaller than
with open() in this case.

Laurynas