SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW

mi via mc <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 05:41:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When i enter a folder which is a symlink, like for example ~/test --> ~ /tmp/test then the strace of mc is full of things like this:

newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/test/subfolder", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=40, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0


What does that NOFOLLOW mean, where is it coming from ?
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