Crate nofollow

This crate provide an extension trait for OpenOptions to prevent dereferencing if the given path is a symbolic link when opening a file.

use nofollow::OpenOptionsExt;
use std::{fs::OpenOptions, io::prelude::*};

let mut content = String::new();
OpenOptions::new()
    .read(true)
    .no_follow()
    .open(file!())
    .unwrap()
    .read_to_string(&mut content)
    .unwrap();
assert_eq!(content, include_str!(concat!("../", file!())));

Traits

OpenOptionsExt

An extension trait for OpenOptions.