>FreeBSD implements O_NOFOLLOW as folllows:
>     If O_NOFOLLOW is used in the mask and the target file passed to
>     open() is a symbolic link then the open() will fail.
>
>Just as an FYI.  If you are going to do something different than the
>above, then a different name might be in order.

i'm curious...i just perused the freebsd source, but was not able to
tell quickly if it handles the case of a symlink in the path to the
target.  presumably, if i tell it to open /tmp/foo/bar and bar is a
symlink, that will fail.  but what if foo is a symlink?

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