Bug 27656

Summary: Symlinks to directories cause contents of target directory to !
Product: Base System Reporter: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 5.0-CURRENT   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Andrew Kenneth Milton 2001-05-26 11:20:03 UTC 
Symlinks to directories cause contents of target directory to be treated
as a directory, this obviously causes freakish problems with legacy apps.

Fix: 

None Available
How-To-Repeat: boot kernel with DEVFS

mkdir -p /usr/dev/dri
ln -fs /usr/dev/dri/ /dev/dri
cd /usr/dev/dri
mknod c 145 0 root:wheel card0
cd /dev
(if you have command complete on this works a lot easier..)
cd dri/card0/card0/card0/card0/card0/card0/card0...
Comment 1 Poul-Henning Kamp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-05-26 21:08:05 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

fixed, thanks!