Re: delivery to a symlink

Luke Davis <ldavis(_at_)voicenet(_dot_)com> writes:
> Yup, forgot about that.
> You could hard link it; but often /var/spool/mail is not on the same
> filesystem as standard user's filesystems; thus a soft link.
Hardlink, softlink, it doesn't matter: if a file has two names then locking
the name (which dotlocking does) won't work.  Yes, with softlinks you 'chase'
them and lock the target name, but you can't follow symlinks atomically,
so it would be a security hole in many configs.

Philip Guenther