The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 22, 2022 10:44 UTC (Fri) by jwilk (subscriber, #63328)
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

The O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW + /proc/self/fd/N trick can be also used to bind-mount over symlinks: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20191230052036.8765-1-cyphar@...

The linked mail from 2019 proposed removal of this feature, but AFAICS it still works, so I guess it's not going to be removed after all?