Anand Avati <anand.avati@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you sure the problem is the creation of the symlink itself and not the > attempt to set GFID on the symlink (where linux sets the xattr on the > symlink itself while NetBSD sets the xattr on the target?) There is no room for implementation choice here since there are two system calls: setxattr() and lsetxattr(). The first one follows links, the second one does not. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@xxxxxxxxxx