Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:17:54 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API. |
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Simon Richter wrote: > A real problem, however, is that fstat() does not allow you to check > whether you just opened a link. Maybe a solution would be to add an > O_NOLINK flag that makes open refuse to open a symlink (that is not root > owned?)?
Already done in 2.1.126: O_NOFOLLOW. Broken for directories before 2.2.6.
-- Jamie
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