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Re: fcntl(F_GETPATH) support
>>> If you can get a file desriptor to a symlink, [...]
> There should be no way to get a fd for a symlink; if you can,
> something bad has happened.
At present, perhaps.
> 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.
Depends on what operations are defined on such a descriptor, and how
they are implemented.
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