On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 18:12 -0500, Nathan Scott wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 03:17 -0500, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Otherwise maybe some selinux or other security module coming
> > > into play? (guessing wildly)
> >
> > Explanation is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/390323/
> >
> > Since the "primary" symlink can only ever be owned by "pcp", the fix
> > is to make $PCP_TMP_DIR/pmlogger owned by "pcp".
> >
>
> Does this have to be a symlink? Would a hardlink do? It's in the
> same directory, so no cross-filesystem issues there... there'll be
> a few -L tests here and there, but perhaps they could be reworked?
> (symlink support lacking on Win32, generally, so others benefit as
> well, in theory).
No reason for it to be a symlink that I can think of ... good
suggestion.
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