From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 15 9:35:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (larry.euronet.nl [194.134.35.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BD937B443 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p1168.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.203.149]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f5FGZUN07098; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:35:31 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:35:15 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: David Wolfskill Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] Message-Id: <20010615183515.36f81380.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <200106151331.f5FDVCo94946@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <200106151331.f5FDVCo94946@bunrab.catwhisker.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.99cvs3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 06:31:12 -0700 (PDT) David Wolfskill wrote: DW> Indeed: it is my understanding that the "path name" interpretation is DW> an issue at the time of reference, not (necessarily) the time of DW> creation. It has, to the best of my knowledge, been valid to create a DW> symlink prior to a point when its target exists. It has been on evey platform I have ever used ln -s on. DW> One may well argue that this is "broken" in some way(s). Still, changing DW> it at this point could well be considered a POLA violation, at best. I would argue loud and long that changing that *would* be broken. There is never a guarantee (or even an implication) that a symlink points to a valid directory entry (think unmounted filesystems, NFS ...). I find it hard to imagine why creation time should be special in that regard. -- Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun http://www.best.com/~sohara To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message