Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.0] 9pfs: improve portability to older systems

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/21/2011 10:01 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > -    return qemu_utimensat(AT_FDCWD, rpath(s, path, buffer), buf,
> > -                          AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
> > +    return qemu_utimens(rpath(s, path, buffer), buf);
>
> Hrm, I thought the SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW was critical in enforcing security?

Yes, and it is applied by qemu_utimens automatically (but the constant 
only appears in a section where we know it is defined).

Paolo