nohup.out and Symlinks

[Richie Laager]

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When nohup runs a program whose output is a terminal, it redirects stdout and 
stderr to a file named nohup.out in the current directory. What would stop 
someone from creating a symlink called nohup.out that points to /etc/passwd 
or some other important file, and then waiting for root to run nohup?

Hopefully I'm missing something, but if I'm not, I think this qualifies as a 
bug.

Richie
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