Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:12:51 +0000 (GMT)
> 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.
An the mainstream keeps -EEXIST for O_CREAT|O_EXCL over a symlink too. Its
basically a universally accepted "right thing to do". The application can
cope with it being overstrict, the application cannot implement the
reverse policy setup sanely
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