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		mansr on Oct 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike comments on Ryan Dahl's rant Only commands capable of doing something meaningful with symlinks need such a flag. These are a minority.

uriel on Oct 5, 2011 [–]

Any program that manipulates or traverses file trees is affected, and a few more, in an OS that is built around the concept of hierarchical file systems, this is quite a few.

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