Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV
Mitchell Blank Jr (mitch@execpc.com)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:00:51 -0600
Eastep, Tom wrote:
> >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.
>
> FWIW, the 2.1.127 behavior wrt O_CREAT|O_EXCL is exactly what we implemented
> here at Tandem and what Solaris does -- if a symbolic link with the
> specified name exists, the operation fails with EEXIST.
This is also the documented bevaiour of BSD4.3/BSD2.10. It's been the way
it's always been, since almost the damn of symlinks.
Programs depend on this for security. Changing it would be a disaster.
-Mitch
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