On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:05:33AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote: > > > Given the very small number of programs that manage to mess up the > > symlink usage, I'm kind of opposed to providing another system call just > > as work around for them. > > You did not explain what problems it would introduce, did you?
You are adding a lot of complexity to workaround portability issues of a single application. Let's start the other way -- has FreeBSD added llink(2)? What about OSX? Solaris? Joerg
