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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Alexander Viro wrote:

>> 
> +				or "00000000" if it's 070701.  Kernel
> +				is not expected to verify it in any case.
>  


Check.


>  
> - The c_filesize should be zero for any non-regular file.
> + The c_filesize can be non-zero only for regular files and symlinks.
> + For symlinks data and c_filesize match the results of readlink(2).
> + Having more than one link to a symlink is illegal.
> 

Why can't you have more than one link to a symlink?

	-hpa

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