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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#4340: KDE Vuln
From:       George Staikos <staikos () 0wned ! org>
Date:       2000-06-01 18:33:05
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Hans Petter Bieker wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, George Staikos wrote:
> 
> > open(2) has a new option on some systems (FreeBSD, recent Linux, probably
> > OpenBSD and others as well) call O_NOFOLLOW which does what we want.  We
> > could perhaps use this if it's available (detected via autoconf?).
> 
> Shouldn't "#ifdef O_NOFOLLOW" do it?

  Yup.

   What can we do to provide this level of safety on other OS's though?

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George Staikos

 
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