Russ Cox

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...

ping @FiloSottile @rolandshoemaker @katiehockman

Based on the discussion above, this proposal seems like a **[likely accept](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#likely-accept)**. — rsc for the proposal review group

No change in consensus, so **[accepted](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#accepted)**. 🎉 This issue now tracks the work of implementing the proposal. — rsc for the proposal review group

Rewriting the link is tricky and not rewriting the link is also tricky. It's unclear to me what we should do here, if anything.

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...

So the API for ReadLink is that it must return a path relative to the link, and if it can't do that, then it returns an error? It seems like...

@zombiezen, thanks for the use cases. It seems fairly unobtrusive to add ReadLinkFS and fs.ReadLink, so the cost seems low and the benefit > 0. @bcmills: > I would expect...

OK, so it sounds like we agree on ReadLink and ReadLinkFS but with the restriction that the returned link must be relative, and absolute symlinks return errors instead. Do I...

Based on the discussion above, this proposal seems like a **[likely accept](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#likely-accept)**. — rsc for the proposal review group