Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 05:30:43 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, imp@harmony.village.org, steveo@eircom.net, david@catwhisker.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] Message-ID: <20010618053043.A58432@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <200106180100.f5I106A09487@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:00:06PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106172154520.582-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010617113141A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010617231418.A60728@nagual.pp.ru> <200106172128.f5HLSe108208@earth.backplane.com> <20010618015913.A45621@nagual.pp.ru> <200106172204.f5HM46608526@earth.backplane.com> <20010618021122.A45861@nagual.pp.ru> <200106180026.f5I0QGR09184@earth.backplane.com> <20010618044330.B54578@nagual.pp.ru> <200106180100.f5I106A09487@earth.backplane.com>
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 18:00:06 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > > I think we can safely disallow path lookups going through empty symlinks > (i.e. at the time of the open(), lstat(), etc...), but we should not > go changing the "ln" command or the symlink() system call. This is exact the same thing as I suggest. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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