Subject: Re: kern/642: lstat() returns wrong inode for symlink?
To: None <sjg@bilbo.dn.itg.telecom.com.au>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/15/1994 07:45:54 
   root:188# ls -idl /sys /usr/src /src /src/sys         
      2 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   11 Nov 17 16:58 /sys@ -> usr/src/sys
      2 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    4 Nov 17 16:29 /usr/src@ -> /src
      2 drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  512 Dec  7 15:18 /src/
   7552 drwxrwxr-x  25 root  wheel  512 Nov  7 11:32 /src/sys/

   Thus /sys and /src get the same dev/inode as the root directory!

In 4.4-Lite, symlinks appear to have the inode number and time stamps
of the directory they're in.  This is allegedly a feature, though I'm
starting to think it's one of the silliest changes I've seen yet.