Subject: Re: Random PID'
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
From: Jaromír Dolecek <dolecek@ibis.cz>
List: current-users
Date: 11/10/2000 21:57:28
Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> > What about a way of disabling symlinks on a mounted partition altogether?
> > Or will this break too many programs to be useful?
> 
> I just noticed, FreeBSD seems to have something similar to this in mount.h:
> #define MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW 0x00400000      /* do not follow symlinks */
> 
> and in mount(8):
>              nosymfollow
>                      Do not follow symlinks on the mounted file system.

Yeah, this seems like potentially usable (and trivial to add).

Jaromir
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