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Message-ID: <87pnug7v2q.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 10:04:13 +1100
From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: path-lookup - update externel refs
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@...e.com>
---
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
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2.14.0.rc0.dirty
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