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diff --git a/docs/design.md b/docs/design.md index 6299288..e2c3cf6 100644 --- a/docs/design.md +++ b/docs/design.md @@ -924,7 +924,13 @@ What that means, and the tests that hold it (plans 8 and 9): resolve at or under the directory its text names before the first placeholder, so a capture of "..", "~" or nothing cannot move it elsewhere; a rename whose placeholders produce "", "." or ".." is skipped - with a reason. + with a reason. A symlink is a name too: a step whose destination passes + through a symlink **inside the directory being sorted** fails rather than + following it, since anything at all may be written there - by a download, + or an unpacked archive - and the plan the user approved shows only the + text. A destination the configuration itself names outside that + directory, `~/docs` on another disk say, is the user's own arrangement + and is followed as before. - A file is acted on only while it is still the file that was planned: same size and modification time, still a regular file (not a symlink put in its place), and, at its planned path, the same inode. A step that had |