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Symlinks cannot be used as config files or directories #11

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thefloweringash opened this issue Jun 21, 2017 · 0 comments
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Symlinks cannot be used as config files or directories #11

thefloweringash opened this issue Jun 21, 2017 · 0 comments

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The code that checks properties of the filesystem uses lstat. The difference between lstat and stat from the docs:

lstat() is identical to stat(), except that if path is a symbolic link, then the link itself is stat-ed, not the file that it refers to.

This prevents the usage of symbolic links to config files and directories. Is this intentional? Could stat be used instead?
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