<html><body><p>In a word, no. I can't blame anyone for suspecting that there's yet another hidden flag somewhere, given our track record, but there's nothing hidden on this one, there's just no code to implement O_NOFOLLOW. This isn't Posix, and we just never put it in. This would be a reasonable thing to have, so if you feel strongly enough about it to open an RFE, go for it.<br><br>yuri<br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=07BBF56BDFF9B9AA8f9e8a93df938690918c07B@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for "Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP]" ---07/21/2016 09:05:11 AM---Hi Everyone, I've"><font color="#424282">"Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP]" ---07/21/2016 09:05:11 AM---Hi Everyone, I've noticed that many GPFS commands (mm*acl,mm*attr) and API calls (in particular the</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">"Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP]" <aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org>, </font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/21/2016 09:05 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS API O_NOFOLLOW support</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><font size="4">Hi Everyone, </font><br><br><font size="4">I've noticed that many GPFS commands (mm*acl,mm*attr) and API calls (in particular the putacl and getacl functions) have no support for not following symlinks. Is there some hidden support for gpfs_putacl that will cause it to not deteference symbolic links? Something like the O_NOFOLLOW flag used elsewhere in linux?</font><br><br><font size="4">Thanks!</font><br><br><font size="4">-Aaron</font><tt>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></tt><tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></tt><tt><br></tt><br><BR>
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