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| From: | Andreas Schwab |
| Subject: | Re: Recursive copy of symbolic link...possible bug |
| Date: | Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:38:45 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Jason Quinn <address@hidden> writes: > Why does using the backslash here force a dereference? Because that's how pathname resolution is defined (see <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_12>). It's a functionality that is performed by the kernel. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, address@hidden GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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