Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 15:42:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disabled symlinks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971026154102.25408D-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199710261041.LAA00556@panke.panke.de>
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On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > I want mount a file system without symlinks, e.g. > > mount -t mfs -o nodev,nosuid,nosymlink /dev/sd0b /tmp > > The nosymlink flag do not allow the creation of a symlink > on the mounted file system. > > Here is a patch for the kernel and mount(8). Thats cool. A great number of the race condition exploits rely on the ability to create symlinks so this is a very useful patch. Any chance of it getting committed? /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */
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