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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen glob.c 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:40:58 EST."
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:46:16 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <200103151940.OAA48323@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write
s:
><<On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:32:32 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said:
>
>> 	"../barf/.." = BAD
>
>This does not seem correct.  I think I have an idea of what you're
>trying to prevent, but in the case where `../barf' is a symbolic link,
>`../barf/..' is a useful way to get to the parent of wherever
>`../barf' points.
>
>Can you think of an example where this is a problem, that doesn't
>involve globbing?

probably not.

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