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Alan Hourihane píše v Pá 28. 08. 2009 v 16:31 +0100:

> I'm not sure why symlinks are specially treated and then go off and follow
> their real pointers. It's just wrong.

Standa (the author of HostFS) said that the additional code checks
whether the file the symlink points to resides in one of the mapped
paths. If it points somewhere outside then he tries to simulate that
it's a real file for the guest instead of a broken symlink.

Petr