On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 06:41:53AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:48:42AM -0400, Mouse wrote: > > Is there any particular reason this was done? > > No sure about the change, but linkat(2) let you choose the behavior using > the AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag.
It may be unintended fallout from replacing our old ln(1) with the FreeBSD version. Martin