Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:27:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: O_EXCL Message-ID: <199704180627.XAA15953@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In the man page for open, it says that O_EXCL causes symlinks not to
be followed. However, when I was reading the code, I found that its
broken. In the open syscall, it does NDINIT with the FOLLOW flag already
set, and then in vn_open, which is called shortly thereafter with the
nameidata struct, it does:
if ((fmode & O_EXCL) == 0)
ndp->.... |= FOLLOW;\
It looks to me like its broken, and either it should be fixed with the
trivial fix, or the documentation for open fixed.
-josh
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