Broken operating systems....

I have recently stumbled across a nice, wonderful, PITA, er, issue with the implementation of open with O_CREAT and dangling symlinks. Simply put, under some Linux kernels (2.4.0-test1*, at least), O_CREAT will not follow dangling symlinks - instead, -ENOENT in returned. This is not a /good/ thing, given that the implementation of saving files under XEmacs will cause any file opened through a symlink to become a dangling symling before it tries to create it. This is, um, not very good. Now, I have opened a discussion about this with the people responsible for it but, for now, XEmacs will not work on this system. In the short term[1], is it worth my while putting together a patch to fix this in XEmacs by resolving the output filename and only ever passing the real name to the system? I had a glance at the code and this is, um, non-trivial to do, I think. Especially as it would mean potentially dealing with GC. I will put in the effort if needed, though. Daniel Footnotes: [1] Possibly even the long term, if the darned-foolishness is retained because it's easier[2] to implement. [2] Also sainer and the only race-free way to do it, or so the claims go. -- The mist crawls from the canal like some primordial phantom of romance. To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen -- Marillion, _Bitter Suite (I)_ (Misplaced Childhood)