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

From: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:42:54 UTC
On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 11:17 AM Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Can we please get a runat(1) option to open the named attr dir of a symlink?
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> 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))
Easy enough to do. Not sure what you mean by the "--"?
Are you thinking that it should be like rm(1), so that a file name
of "-S" can work?

rick

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> Lionel
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