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Bug#107826: can not create file through a dangling symlink


From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Subject: Bug#107826: can not create file through a dangling symlink
Date: 20 Aug 2001 13:53:42 -0700
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Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> writes:

> These things differed in traditional Unix behavior, and in BSD until fairly
> recently, but the new specs on the horizon require everyone to match the
> System V style behavior.

Eww, blech.  There are lots of people who use symlinks to nothing
*explicitly* intending to block creation of the referenced file.

Should we necessarily match every standard, even stupid ones?




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