On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:53:41AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > FYI - XNU has O_SYMLINK for this. Not saying we should necessarily add it > to NetBSD, just noting the precedent. > > -- thorpej > Sent from my iPhone. > > > On Sep 14, 2019, at 5:06 PM, Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: > > > > If you can get a file desriptor to a symlink, it will work; I don't think > > that we have a way to do this now.
There should be no way to get a fd for a symlink; if you can, something bad has happened. Because of the way short symlinks are handled in ffs, I wouldn't be surprised if managing to get one let you corrupt the fs. -- A. No Q. Should I include quotations after my reply?
