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Subject: Re: Interesting reading that I agree with;-)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 03:24:33 +0200
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:42:04PM -0600, Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:
> an absolute path to a file.  The only thing that appears to be needed
> for this is the new syscall and the applications to actually use it.

The syscall is named "readlink":

   ls -ld /proc/self/fd/0
   lrwx------    1 root     root           64 May 23 03:23 0 -> /dev/pts/1

Of course, it has to solve problems like the stupid way of appending
(instead of prepending) "(deleted)".

Much more useful. IMHO, would be a flink() call, although it might destroy
some optimizations in some filesystems ;->

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