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Date:      Tue, 1 Dec 1998 07:07:08 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mtree -d (diff to include symlinks)
Message-ID:  <19981201070708.A62426@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199812010350.WAA12951@bb01f39.unx.sas.com>; from jwd@unx.sas.com on Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 10:50:08PM -0500
References:  <199812010350.WAA12951@bb01f39.unx.sas.com>

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On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 10:50:08PM -0500, John W. DeBoskey wrote:
>        (See 1.3.8.3 Mon Mar 9 12:32:09 1998 UTC by ache) The
>        comment does not say why the 'FTS_PHYSICAL -> FTS_LOGICAL'
>        change was done.

Because you got serious security hole in case you use symlinks to split
disk space on your system, imagine wrong /var/mail presmissions for
example. BTW I believe peter already commit the change which implements
(differently) what you want, see commit log for details.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y

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