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

Reply: Shawn Webb : "Re: FreeBSD runat(1) option to open a symlink named attr dir?"
In reply to: Rick Macklem : "Re: FreeBSD runat(1) option to open a symlink named attr dir?"
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From: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:37:02 UTC

On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 1:23 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?
> >
> > 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))
> The patch that does this can be found at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55023
The current patch causes runat(1) to fail when "-S" is specified and the file
is not a symbolic link.

A reviewer asked "Why not just let it process the non-symbolic link?".

What do others think..should it fail for "-S" if the file is not a symbolic
link or should it function anyway (possibly with a warning)?

rick

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