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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?

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