Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] symlink.7: document magic-links more completely

2020-05-15 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Aleksa, Did you have a chance to look into writing this patch? Thanks, Michael On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 17:37, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > > On 2020-04-17, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > Hi Aleksa, > > > > Re our discussion of documentation to be added for magic symlinks, > > there was the

Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] symlink.7: document magic-links more completely

2019-10-09 Thread Aleksa Sarai
On 2019-10-09, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 10/3/19 4:55 PM, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > > Traditionally, magic-links have not been a well-understood topic in > > Linux. Given the new changes in their semantics (related to the link > > mode of trailing magic-links), it seems like a good oppor

Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] symlink.7: document magic-links more completely

2019-10-09 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello Aleksa, On 10/3/19 4:55 PM, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > Traditionally, magic-links have not been a well-understood topic in > Linux. Given the new changes in their semantics (related to the link > mode of trailing magic-links), it seems like a good opportunity to shine > more light on magic-links

Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] symlink.7: document magic-links more completely

2019-10-07 Thread Aleksa Sarai
On 2019-10-07, Jann Horn wrote: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 4:56 PM Aleksa Sarai wrote: > > Traditionally, magic-links have not been a well-understood topic in > > Linux. Given the new changes in their semantics (related to the link > > mode of trailing magic-links), it seems like a good opportunity

Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] symlink.7: document magic-links more completely

2019-10-07 Thread Jann Horn
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 4:56 PM Aleksa Sarai wrote: > Traditionally, magic-links have not been a well-understood topic in > Linux. Given the new changes in their semantics (related to the link > mode of trailing magic-links), it seems like a good opportunity to shine > more light on magic-links and

[PATCH RFC 1/3] symlink.7: document magic-links more completely

2019-10-03 Thread Aleksa Sarai
Traditionally, magic-links have not been a well-understood topic in Linux. Given the new changes in their semantics (related to the link mode of trailing magic-links), it seems like a good opportunity to shine more light on magic-links and their semantics. Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai --- man7/pa