FreeBSD runat(1) option to open a symlink named attr dir?

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From: Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:16:08 UTC

Can we please get a runat(1) option to open the named attr dir of a symlink?

For example add an option -S (and -- end of argument handling) to open
the base file,dir,symlink with open(argv[1],
O_RDONLY|O_NOFOLLOW|O_PATH))

Lionel