Hi Paul,

> One other possible bug is that the mode could change temporarily and then 
> spontaneously revert later, because the updated mode was cached but not 
> committed to stable storage. Filesystem bugs can be nasty.

The S_ISLNK check that you put in bypasses this dark/fuzzy area in the kernel.
Therefore I won't check against this possible bug in a unit test. Let the
kernel people do this.

Bruno


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