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SubjectRe: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 10:59:47PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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.

But removing this `arbitrary restriction' early in 2.3.x will give
people plenty of time to fix the applications that might be affected.

Its not a huge issue, I just think that we should have as few
arbitrary special rules as possible.

Oh, and if Linux and FreeBSD have O_NOFOLLOW, then thats a good chunk
of the main-stream.




-cw

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