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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing (Was Re: Retaining file permissions)
Message-ID: <6530@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 23:27:33 GMT
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>As for symbolic links, POSIX had no real support for them last I
>checked.

I suspect Sean Fagan is thinking of an upcoming update to 1003.1, which
*will* specify, among other things, symlinks.