Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 01:18:09 +0100

chris@cybernet.co.nz said:
>
> If you've done the same as I have, then it returns success upon
> opening s symlink, and then EINVAL when you try to write it.
> my later patch I just sent addresses this.

Something like...

if (dentry->d_inode && dentry->d_inode->i_op->follow_link &&
(flag & O_NOFOLLOW))
{
error = -EMLINK;
goto exit;
}

?

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