Re: patch: new sysctl to remove hardcoded ELOOP limit
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 21:08:20 +0100 (BST)
> Note that O_NOFOLLOW is still useful, partly because of web-serving etc
> where the web-server may want to do validation of symlinks (make sure the
> symlink doesn't point to /etc/passwd, for example). So I'd be more than
> happy to support O_NOFOLLOW (and it should be fairly easy), but it's never
> been a high priority for me,
>
Ok good cos I need it clean up the core dump down symlink stuff
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