Re: Kernel related StarOffice 5.1a problem

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 01:15:55 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>[..] Both readlink() and open()

I don't understand why readlink was broken. Maybe you meant getdents(2)
reporting one thing and open(2) allowing also something more.

On 2.2.12 the right semantics worked fine. 2.2.12 was only a bit too much
permissive but that _couldn't_ hurt in any way.

Andrea

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