As gmane is no longer reliable, use lkml.org Section numbers used by the open group seem to have changed! Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst index bba1fef066a1..c5987d1c5fc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ pathname that is just slashes have a final component. If it does exist, it could be "``.``" or "``..``" which are handled quite differently from other components. -.. _POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_12 +.. _POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_13 If a pathname ends with a slash, such as "``/tmp/foo/``" it might be tempting to consider that to have an empty final component. In many @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ successfully - the error ``ELOOP`` must be returned. Loops can be detected without imposing limits, but limits are the simplest solution and, given the second reason for restriction, quite sufficient. -.. _outlined recently: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1934390/focus=1934550 +.. _outlined recently: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/20/644 The second reason was `outlined recently`_ by Linus: @@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ Symlinks are different it seems. Both reading a symlink (with ``readlink()``) and looking up a symlink on the way to some other destination can update the atime on that symlink. -.. _clearest statement: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_08 +.. _clearest statement: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_09 It is not clear why this is the case; POSIX has little to say on the subject. The `clearest statement`_ is that, if a particular implementation -- 2.14.0.rc0.dirty
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