Michael Richardson <mcr@solidum.com> writes:
>   Is it normal that connect(2) does not follow symlinks on Unix domain
> sockets? In my case, I have rtty running on device "scopebench", and
> have:
> 
> vonbrown-[~] mcr 14 %ls -lta /usr/pkg/rtty/sock
> total 2
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 11 16:43 ./
> srw-rw----  1 root  eng      0 Oct 11 16:43 scopebench=
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Oct 11 16:42 garneau@ -> scobebench
> 
>   But, I get:
> 
> vonbrown-[~] mcr 10 %console garneau
> /usr/pkg/rtty/bin/rtty: : /usr/pkg/rtty/sock/garneau: No such file or directory

is the destination of 'garneau' a paste-o, or is your symlink losing?

i've no idea about the expected behaviour, but it's almost certain
that the socket & link you pasted above won't produce it...  8-)


cgd
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