Hello Keir,

Please try a SLES10 SP1 distro :: coreutils-5.93-22.9.x86_64.rpm
You will find that readlink does not return anything for a real file.

Thank you,

Joshua

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Keir Fraser wrote: 
On 27/8/07 20:05, "Ben Guthro" <bguthro@virtualiron.com> wrote:


Minor change to allow a blktap specification to be an actual
path to a file instead of a soft link to a file

Signed-off-by: Ben Guthro <bguthro@virtualiron.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Nicholas <jnicholas@virtualiron.com>


readlink should work fine on a real file, and just return its filename
unmodified.

 -- Keir