I'll be impressed if you mount a /tmp without symlink possibilities and 
normal system operations continue as normal. I dont' know of anything specific
but lots of things depend on the ability to create temp files which also 
include symlnks on occasion.

James


>On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 jchacon@genuity.net wrote:
>> On the other hand random PID's doesn't solve anything. It just hides problems
>> and makes them harder to discover.
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>We're not talking about random PID's anymore, we're talking about a
>possible mount flag 'nosymfollow', which would be VERY useful for /tmp.
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