Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:59:47 +0000 (GMT)
> 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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