Eric Blake, le Tue 08 May 2012 12:46:57 -0600, a écrit : > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html > O_NOFOLLOW > If path names a symbolic link, fail and set errno to [ELOOP]. > > I wouldn't object to yet another O_* flag that can be used to disable > translators,
The problem is that we can't expect people to know about that flag, and use it where security is needed. > but don't see how breaking POSIX semantics of a FIFO just because > O_NOFOLLOW was used is warranted. I don't mean it's warranted. I mean that it's expected that using O_NOFOLLOW will disable translators. We can however perhaps refine the behavior to at least make standard fifos work. Samuel
