> 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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