Re: mail.local.c patch

[chris () rivers dra hmg gb (Christopher Samuel)]

In message <199502190124.BAA01431 () legless demon co uk>, 
        Neil Woods <neil () legless demon co uk> writes:

> open(2) doesn't follow symlinks when O_CREAT and O_EXCL are set, so we
> don't have a race here.

> From the tests I've done in the past, and from information received
from others on bugtraq, open(2) will misbehave on:

HP-UX V7.05
HP-UX V8.00
A/UX 3.02
Irix 4.0.5f

...so you can still have a problem there.

See the following for more information:

        ftp.dra.hmg.gb:/pub/TenDRA/staff/chris/symlinks-problem-list

Chris
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