Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: O_NOFOLLOW? (was "Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV") | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:27:41 +0100 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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chris@cybernet.co.nz said: > On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 01:40:43AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > You do want to modify fs/open.c so that O_NOFOLLOW is removed from > > the flags after open() time, though, as with all the other such > > flags.
> Yes... I missed that (I'm actually not sure why this is necessary
AFAIK, just for tidiness - so that those flags don't appear when you call fcntl(F_GETFL)
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