Re: core symlinks

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> 	It's been mentioned before that core dumps on
> some systems may fallow symlink and that this can be used
> to overwrite any file. I was wondering if anyone knows which
> OS's and versions behave this way.

 Werd a1. I've tried this on the following systems

SunOS 4.1.3_U1
HP-UX 9.0
Linux 1.1.something

 and the basic story is that at the end of all the links, if you do not
have permission, it will not dump core... however if you do have 
permission to write to that file (ie: core -> foo -> bar -> /tmp/mycore)
it will dump it.

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