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Re: zero-length symlinks



On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:17:50PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
 > > As zero-length symlinks aren't sensible, this should probably be
 > > prohibited. Does anyone see any reason they shouldn't be?
 > 
 > I think "not sensible" is not a good enough reason to prohibit
 > something.

Yeah yeah, but still nowadays we don't allow adding hard links to
directories. So while that's a valid premise, it's not universal.

Anyway, it looks like this is better left alone.

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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