Re: fcntl(F_GETPATH) support

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:53:41AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
 > FYI - XNU has O_SYMLINK for this.  Not saying we should necessarily add it to NetBSD, just noting the precedent.
 > 
 > -- thorpej
 > Sent from my iPhone.
 > 
 > > On Sep 14, 2019, at 5:06 PM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
 > > 
 > > If you can get a file desriptor to a symlink, it will work; I don't think
 > > that we have a way to do this now.

There should be no way to get a fd for a symlink; if you can,
something bad has happened.

Because of the way short symlinks are handled in ffs, I wouldn't be
surprised if managing to get one let you corrupt the fs.

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