> Following symlinks can be useful at times. It is the root-owned
> processes responsibility to check for symlinks in /tmp. This argument
> can be used for any file manipulation in a globally writable directory.
> Both mkdir("foo") and mkdir("foo/") should follow symlinks for
> consistency purposes.
Ick, no. Whatever mkdir("foo/") does, mkdir("foo") should return EEXIST if
foo is a symlink. Anything else would be plain weird.
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