Re: strange behaviour: sed follows symlink when reading but not when writing on -i and without --follow-symlinks

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 16:45 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Because it's the kernel rather than sed that does the following in the
> read case.
uhm... well you could check first, whether the file is a symlink... but
I guess you don't wanna do that for performance reasons?


Anyway,... wouldn't it be more reasonable to have the --follow-symlinks
as default and add a --no-follow-symlinks?


Cheers,
Chris.