Re: symlink problem

I have uploaded to

   /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/a/jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/
   \\afs\athena.mit.edu\user\j\a\jaltman\Public\OpenAFS\
   http://web.mit.edu/~jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/

daily builds which I believe solve this problem.  The
SMB/CIFS server was not evaluating the symlink value when
opening the file.  The end result was that attempts to
truncate the file during a open operation were failing.
You can't apply truncation to the symlink itself.

Looking at the source code I can find no reason why this
would have ever worked.  The support for recursively following
the symlink simply did not exist.  I would be interested in
seeing if anyone has any test cases which fail using the new
algorithms.

Jeffrey Altman