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From: ekrell@hector..UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
Message-ID: <2924@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 20:36:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: ulysses.2924
Posted: Fri Sep  4 20:36:31 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 03:23:20 EDT
References: <1254@mhres.mh.nl> <1809@munnari.oz>
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Reply-To: ekrell@hector (Eduardo Krell)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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In article <1809@munnari.oz> mwp@munnari.UUCP writes:

>The kernel only knows, in this case, one possible path -- the
>one you used to get there. Given this problem, how would you know if
>you were removing the real directory or just a symbolic link?

How about lstat() ?
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

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