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Re: Realpath & context sensitive symlinks


Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> writes:

> Sistina and IBM (AFS) will pronably leave the support in their
> filesystems, but both codebases have other problems anyway..

I don't see any problems that would be posed by AFS in this area.  AFS
doesn't have special symbolic links; AFS has a magic token (@sys), which
when present in any path is replaced by a kernel variable, but treating
that token as if it were a literal directory name works fine and is
generally what one wants anyway.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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