Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Tighten up linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Let me rephrase that: why do we allow these types of lookup to recurse
> like normal symlinks?  I'm proposing that these links immediately
> terminate lookup  [..]

It can nest *inside* a regular symlink. So there should not be any
recursion of pure /proc style symlink jumps, but they live within the
nesting that is normal symlink behavior.

            Linus
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