Subject: Re: kern/35675: magiclinks implementation broken
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/17/2007 19:40:03
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 04:38:26 +0900 (JST)

 > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:30:02 +0000 (UTC)
 > yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
 > 
 > >  i'm not sure what you mean.
 > 
 > I'm not sure why do you say "I'm not sure" :-)
 > 
 > Maybe I'm not understanding how magiclinks works, but if magiclinks
 > only works for files we cannot use it for /tmp...
 
 i don't understand what made you think it works for regular files but
 not for directories.
 symbolic links have nothing to do with what their targets are.
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi