From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag for linkat
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:32:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060618193219.GF27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606181220590.5498@g5.osdl.org>
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > Where does POSIX require that? IIRC, it was along the lines of "application
> > can't rely on kernel doing the right thing", not "kernel must do the
> > wrong thing"...
>
> Well, the patch as sent in does seem sane, as long as glibc doesn't start
> defaulting to the insane behaviour. Giving users the _ability_ to link to
> the symlink target is certainly not wrong, regardless of any standard.
> Doing it by default is another matter.
As long as it doesn't get tied to overloaded environment variable that
might be needed for other purposes...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-18 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-17 19:13 [PATCH] Implement AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag for linkat Ulrich Drepper
2006-06-18 19:16 ` Al Viro
2006-06-18 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-18 19:32 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-06-18 19:40 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-06-18 22:06 ` Al Viro
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