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-rw-r--r--src/property/file.lisp3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/property/file.lisp b/src/property/file.lisp
index 5ab8f5b..abc4134 100644
--- a/src/property/file.lisp
+++ b/src/property/file.lisp
@@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ Uses CL-PPCRE:REGEX-REPLACE, which see for the syntax of REPLACE."
;; likewise assume it was already there
:no-change))
-;; readlink(1) is not POSIX
+;; readlink(1) is not POSIX. This is a safe parse of ls(1) output given its
+;; POSIX specification.
(defun remote-link-target (symlink)
(loop with s = (stripln (run :env '(:LC_ALL "C") "ls" "-ld" symlink))
and found = 0 and just-found