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

[John Cowan]

Christoph Anton Mitterer scripsit:

> uhm... well you could check first, whether the file is a symlink... but
> I guess you don't wanna do that for performance reasons?

It's normal to let the kernel follow symlinks.  The exceptions arise when
you are doing something unusual like -i.

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