[PATCH] lsof: correct check for symbolic link

[Rob Landley]

On 06/19/2013 12:05:25 PM, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> > not sure if trying to define a build-time knob to control it would  
> work out
> > well since a number of factors come into play here ...
> 
>  A build-time system check sounds indeed like the right thing to do.  
> What
> kind of factors do you think would make it difficult ?

If I recall, the bug (from 2006) was that reiserfs didn't fill out the  
field. So this is a proposed work around for a bug in a very stale  
version of reiserfs.

How does a build-time check tell you that there's a bug in a filesystem  
your build machine probably hasn't even got?

Rob