[BUG] 2.3.99 pre4-3 - chdir does not follow symlinks

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I haven't seen this mentioned, but pre4-3 appears to break chdir. namei used
to be called by sys_chdir so it followed symlinks. The following change
fixes this.

--- linux/fs/open.c Mon Apr 3 20:25:50 2000
+++ 2399p4-work/fs/open.c Tue Apr 4 00:03:42 2000
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
        if (IS_ERR(name))
                goto out;

- dentry = lookup_dentry(name, NULL, 0);
+ dentry = lookup_dentry(name, NULL, LOOKUP_FOLLOW);
        putname(name);
        error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
        if (IS_ERR(dentry))

Regards
- Tony

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