Re: readlink(1) behavior

2009-09-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Eric Blake on 9/18/2009 5:35 AM: >> On one hand: >> >> ln -s dangling link => 0 >> stat dangling/ => ENOENT >> stat link/ => ENOENT >> mkdir link/ => 0 > > Creating a directory through a slashed symlink works on Solaris 10, and is > required by POSIX, but it fails

Re: readlink(1) behavior

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 9/18/2009 5:35 AM: > On one hand: > > ln -s dangling link => 0 > stat dangling/ => ENOENT > stat link/ => ENOENT > mkdir link/ => 0 Creating a directory through a slashed symlink works on Solaris 10, and is required by POSI

Re: readlink(1) behavior

2009-09-19 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 02:27:32PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > According to Jim Meyering on 9/18/2009 4:47 AM: > >> Assuming ln -s /nowhere dangling-symlink, > >> New behavior: > >> > >> $ ./readlink -fv dangling-symlink/ > >> /nowhere > >> > >> Previous: > >> > >>

Re: readlink(1) behavior

2009-09-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Jim Meyering on 9/18/2009 4:47 AM: >>> Assuming ln -s /nowhere dangling-symlink, >>> New behavior: >>> >>> $ ./readlink -fv dangling-symlink/ >>> /nowhere >>> >>> Previous: >>> >>> $ readlink -fv dangling-symlink/ >>> readlink:

Re: readlink(1) behavior

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jim Meyering on 9/18/2009 4:47 AM: >> Assuming ln -s /nowhere dangling-symlink, >> New behavior: >> >> $ ./readlink -fv dangling-symlink/ >> /nowhere >> >> Previous: >> >> $ readlink -fv dangling-symlink/ >> readlink: dangling-symlink/: No such file

Re: readlink(1) behavior

2009-09-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 9/18/2009 4:47 AM: > Assuming ln -s /nowhere dangling-symlink, > New behavior: > > $ ./readlink -fv dangling-symlink/ > /nowhere > > Previous: > > $ readlink -fv dangling-symlink/ > readlink: dangling-sym

Re: readlink(1) behavior

2009-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 9/10/2009 11:29 AM: >> readlink -fv missing => lists /path/to/missing >> readlink -fv missing/ => complains that missing is not a dir >> >> I would like to see: 'readlink -fv missing/' list '/path/to/missing', on the >> gr