Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV | | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:59:47 +0000 (GMT) |
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 11:57:17AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Not when its a) needless and b) breaks a perfectly sane semantic > > 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.
Its extremely dangerous to do so. Lots of packages do build time checks for sane symlink behaviour and cope accordingly. O_NOFOLLOW is pretty much unique to Linux and FreeBSD in the mainstream.
Alan
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