Symlink() bug

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

In article <1500018 at uokmet.UUCP> root at uokmet.UUCP writes:
>Description:
>	Symlink() always creates a link to "something", even if the original
>	file doesn't exist.

This is not a bug.

>Fix:
>	add
>		ip = namei(uchar, LOOKUP, 1);
>		if (ip == NULL)
>			return;

You had better iput() the inode afterward---not that you should be
checking for existence of the `destination' string in the first place.
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