| To: | Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: patch for annoying symlink warnings |
| From: | Greg Ward <gward@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:29:12 -0400 |
| Cc: | devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20011026123828.CA81E34EE1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Sender: | owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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On 26 October 2001, Russell Coker said:
> OK. The "GLOBAL symlink" operation is generally triggered by a REGISTER
> event. The normal operation of a register event is to link to the newly
> created device. So I can't imagine the automatic creation of a broken
> symlink to be anything other than a serious error.
Quite likely an error, certainly worth warning about, but a serious
error? Dangling symlinks are usually mistakes, but it's certainly
possible for them to be useful. I don't think /dev should be any
different from any other filesystem in this respect, although warning
about them is a great idea.
Greg
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