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

[John Cowan]

Christoph Anton Mitterer scripsit:

> Now obviously there is --follow-symlinks... in which case, the
> sylink is not removed but correctly
> But even if one argues, that the above behaviour is desired (which
> is a strange default IMHO), it's questionable why the symlink is
> followed (without --follow-symlinks) for reading, but not for
> writing.

Because it's the kernel rather than sed that does the following in the
read case.

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