From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 21:16:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] Were all of you.. Hippies? Message-ID: <20170326011616.560DA18C097@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: Random832 > Does readlink need to exist as a system call? Maybe it should be > possible to open and read a symbolic link - using a flag passed to open What difference does it make? The semantics are the same, only the details of the syntax are different. Noel