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From: hitz@mips.UUCP (David Hitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links in Sys 5.3.1
Message-ID: <838@quacky.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 13:42:36 EST
Article-I.D.: quacky.838
Posted: Mon Oct 26 13:42:36 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 19:36:54 EST
References: <3680027@nucsrl.UUCP> <3680028@nucsrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: hitz@quacky.UUCP (David Hitz)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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Keywords: brain-dead
Summary: AT&T code isn't included, and wouldn't work if it were.

In article <3680028@nucsrl.UUCP> naim@nucsrl.UUCP (Naim Abdullah) writes:
>The reason I asked this question was that I noticed code for
>symbolic links in the sources for our System V, rel. 3.1 kernel.

AT&T has inluded symlink code that doesn't handle symlinks for a couple
of releases now.

First, IFLNK is not set.  (Check sys/inode.h where it would be.)

Second, the os/nami.c code you refered to calls the fs specific
routines to handle the symlink.  But look at that code.  There is a
long comment describing everything required to to handle symlinks
followed by one line of code that doesn't do those things.  (See
fs/s5/s5nami.c line 463.)
-- 
Dave Hitz
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