Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

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Once upon a time, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> The other descriptions of fs.protected_*links say that the protection
> applies to the lookup side when following a link, and not to the
> creation side when installing the link.  So the potential vulnerabilities
> still can be created, but damage is averted at the last possible moment.

That is for symlink protection I believe.  There's no way to do any
hardlink "protection" at lookup time.

Basically, these are two very different things being lumped together,
and they should be addressed individually.
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