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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
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Subject: Re: disabled symlinks
In-Reply-To: <19971027001140.31561@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Oct 27, 97 00:11:40 am"
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:52:41 +0100 (MET)
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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Wolfram Schneider:
> > The nosymlink flag do not allow the creation of a symlink
> > on the mounted file system.
> 
> Could you please modify your patch not to _follow_ symlinks in order to
> disallow all symlinks in a given FS ?
> 
> I think that mounting "nosymlinks" should mean "no symlinks whatsoever".

In fact, perhaps this is more what you want then to disallow creation.
That would also be more in lie with nosuid. Creation of these files is okay, 
but the s{u,g}id bits are not honoured.

-Guido