to not follow symlinks, but to open a handle on the link itself(!).
As strange as this might sound, it has several useful applications
safe race-free ways of opening files in hostile areas (eg: /tmp, a mode
1777 /var/mail, etc). It also would allow things like fchown() to work
on the link rather than having to implement a new syscall specifically for
that task.
Reviewed by: phk
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
