Re: Hardlinks to symlinks

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> 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.

Not _just_ that, because I was really talking about link(2), not ln(1).

I've since verified that changing 1 to 0 in the do_sys_link() call made
by sys_link() produces the old behaviour from ln without touching
userland, so it wasn't a kernel change required by a userland change.

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