[teh]

> Symlinks have all sorts of weird semantics on different Unix machines.

Is there any other implementation than posix in the wild these days?

[lil1729]

http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html

Yes, I know it is fixed. But who knows what one runs into!

And this: http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2005-08-22-how-to-change-symli...

[mbrock]

Well, are there any advanced filesystems that provide better functionality and which work on Linux and OS X? Or what would be the alternative?

[lil1729]

btrfs perhaps? or zfs?