The following reply was made to PR kern/35675; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To: juan@xtrarom.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/35675: magiclinks implementation broken
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:10:32 +0900 (JST)

 > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:55:45 +0900 (JST)
 > yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
 > 
 > > which part of the above do you think broken?
 > 
 > See the following, firstly with files:
 > 
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> ln -s blah/@uid foo
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> file foo
 > foo: broken symbolic link to `blah/@uid'
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> cat foo
 > cat: foo: No such file or directory
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> echo blah > foo
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> cat foo
 > blah
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> ls -l blah
 > total 8
 > -rw-r--r--  1 juan  wheel  5 Feb 17 19:58 1000
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> cat blah/1000
 > blah
 > [juan@nocturno][~]>
 > 
 > Now with directories:
 > 
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> mkdir -p blah/@uid/tmp
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> ln -s blah/@uid/tmp foo
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> cd foo
 > cd: no such file or directory: foo
 > [juan@nocturno][~]> file foo
 > foo: symbolic link to `blah/@uid/tmp'
 > [juan@nocturno][~]>
 > 
 > So does it work?
 
 do you mean the above is not what you expected?
 can you explain what you expected to happen?
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi