[vbox-dev] Patch for symlink support

[Frank Mehnert]

Brian,

On Sunday 17 October 2010, Brian Campbell wrote:
> I've written the attached patch to add symlink support for shared folders
> between linux guests and posix host systems.  It should be compatible with
> other systems (although I've only got linux here to test it on), and
> there's an option in the guest's kernel module to turn it off if the old
> behaviour is needed.
>
> The patch is MIT licensed, and made against the current subversion revision
> (33179).

thank you for this contribution and sorry for ignoring your patch
in ticket 818 (lack of time)! I will take care of the code.

Kind regards,

Frank
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