Re: [BUG] Kernel 2.4.0-test1-ac10 changes open of symlink behavior.

From: I Lee Hetherington (ilh@sls.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 11 2000 - 08:36:42 EST

Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Now, at the point the open call is issued, '.gnus.el' is a symlink to a
> non-existing file. I think, however, that the O_CREAT should cause it to
> be created, yes?

Interesting. In 2.2.15:

     % ln -s no-exist foo
     % ls -F
     foo@
     % touch foo
     % ls -F
     foo@ no-exist

In 2.4.0-test1-ac12

     % rm *
     % ln -s no-exist foo
     % touch foo
     foo: No such file or directory

Something changed.

--Lee Hetherington

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