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>   Yikes, you're not proposing that we disable following of symlinks that
>point to binaries, are you?

   Ah, nevermind, there wasn't enough context in those context diffs. I see
now that this only affects core files that are created.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
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