2009/387 [Pathname Reparse Points]

[Alan M Wright]

On 07/14/09 14:51, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan M Wright <amw at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>> I suspect that magic symlink support is optional in BSD because the
>> content of a magic symlink will be changed on the fly by the OS.
>> For example, if @{HOST} appears in the symlink that tag will be
>> replaced at runtime by the nodename.
> 
> If this is true, how ar these symlinks copied on BSD?

That seems to be outside the scope of this case.
For information on BSD magic symlinks:

http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/symlink.7.html

Alan