[Cgi-session-user] Re: FreeBSD problems / O_NOFOLLOW.

[Mark S. <ma...@su...>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:23:10PM -0600, Matt LeBlanc wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> This is the same problem I referred to when I made the updates with 
> O_NOFOLLOW. An upgrade of Berkeley DB will fix the problem. I'm not 
> certain which releases of Berkeley DB fail and I failed to note which 
> release I had prior to upgrading.

Matt,

I looked into this a little. I learned that the O_NOFOLLOW flag
originated on FreeBSD, with Linux support coming later. That's just
interesting it 's FreeBSD having the issue. Or is not really a FreeBSD
issue, but one with different versions of BerkeleyDB?

Before encouraging upgrades of BerkeleyDB, I would want to confirm that
such an upgrade wouldn't cause incompatibities with files created by
older versions of BerkeleyDB. 

Another approach would be to find out which platforms or cases
O_NOFOLLOW doesn't work in, and turn it off in those cases. From a quick
Google, I could tell that other projects were taking this approach, 
but I didn't see any Perl code snippets. 

For those who are following along: I guess another workaround would be
to try removing O_NOFOLLOW until this is resolved. 

	Mark