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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
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Subject: posix and filesystems
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Date: 7 Feb 91 17:51:34 GMT
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Submitted-by: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)

Given a more-or-less POSIX-compliant system, with multiple filesystem types
(e.g., a "normal" unix filesystem, NFS, and DOS, all mounted at the same
time), does anyone have any ideas what, oh, symlink() should return when
attempted on a filesystem that does not support it?  For various reasons, I
kinda like EINVAL, but I did want to see if anyone else had any ideas, or if
someone could come up with a reference for a "definitive" posix-compliant
answer.

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