Messages in this thread | | | From | "Eastep, Tom" <> | Subject | RE: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:26:43 -0800 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Chris Wedgwood [mailto:chris@cybernet.co.nz]
>Implicit O_NOFOLLOW when we use O_CREAT|O_EXCL is a somewhat >arbitrary rule which we will no longer need - so IMO, removing this >`restriction' is the right thing to do.
FWIW, the 2.1.127 behavior wrt O_CREAT|O_EXCL is exactly what we implemented here at Tandem and what Solaris does -- if a symbolic link with the specified name exists, the operation fails with EEXIST.
Tom --- Tom Eastep COMPAQ Computer Corporation Enterprise Computing Group Tandem Division 206-546-7769 (Telephone and Fax) tom.eastep@tandem.com
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