> P>    The string pointed to by path1 shall be treated only as a character
> P>    string and shall not be validated as a pathname.

I have heard on several occasions of peope using symlink(2) to
atomically store some small piece of information for locking purposes.
(Symlink was more reliably atomic over NFS than other methods.)  So it
is possible that changing this might break something.

-- Richard

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