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Re: [RFC] Treatment of symbolic link


From: Shigio YAMAGUCHI
Subject: Re: [RFC] Treatment of symbolic link
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:28:09 +0900

> Maybe you don't want to follow links that go out of the source tree (eg. 
> /usr/include or whatever), but then you have to check every path component 
> (boring but possible).

It is likely.
But if user want to do so, it should be accepted.

> But worse, symlinks can create loops:
> 
> $ ln -s .. foo

Right. Maybe we can do nothing but believe that the user
wants to do something meaningful. :)
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