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Re: Hardlinks to symlinks



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


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