[PATCH] allow device specification to be a symlink

[Nick Black]

Dan Williams left as an exercise for the reader:
> Can you abstract the link checking into a separate function, since it's
> used in two places? No problem to allocate a new string in both cases
> (symlink and not) and return it to the caller.

Sure. I've gone ahead and done so. The two patches are attached.

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