In message <200012051927.eB5JRc100815@trinity.ihack.net> "Charles M. Hannum" writes:
: * As a separate endeavour, we should consider implementing O_NOFOLLOW
:   to prevent symlink race attacks (but, given the previous, this will
:   generally only affect systems where users have done something
:   actively stupid).

FreeBSD implements O_NOFOLLOW as folllows:
     If O_NOFOLLOW is used in the mask and the target file passed to
     open() is a symbolic link then the open() will fail.

Just as an FYI.  If you are going to do something different than the
above, then a different name might be in order.

Warner