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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.2bsd
Subject: Re: Symlink() bug
Message-ID: <2398@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Jul-86 20:28:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2398
Posted: Sun Jul 13 20:28:39 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jul-86 23:16:15 EDT
References: <1500018@uokmet.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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In article <1500018@uokmet.UUCP> root@uokmet.UUCP writes:
>Description:
>	Symlink() always creates a link to "something", even if the original
>	file doesn't exist.

This is not a bug.

>Fix:
>	add
>		ip = namei(uchar, LOOKUP, 1);
>		if (ip == NULL)
>			return;

You had better iput() the inode afterward---not that you should be
checking for existence of the `destination' string in the first place.
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