Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:47:15 +1300


On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 02:35:53AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> Large nit:
>
> It does not
>
> Try it

ok, sorry - it doesn't. SLAP!

I assume this is because we don't want core to follow links, but
don't have O_NOFOLLOW semantics in VFS?

Hmm... even with the above, cd /tmp, ln /etc/passwd core would still
be bad.

Maybe, O_NOFOLLOW | O_INODESINGLEREF or is that too ugly?

-cw

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