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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:16:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Stevie O <stevie@qrpff.net>
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Subject: Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Stevie O wrote:

> At 12:09 AM 6/13/2002 -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >Vetoed.  Consider what happens if you rename such file, for one thing.
> 
> I don't understand
> What do you mean, if I rename such a file?

rename("foo.lnk", "foo");

or other way round.  Especially funny if you already have file opened.

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