Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:15:17 +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: <20010618021515.B45861@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <200106172204.f5HM46608526@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:04:06PM -0700 References: <200106170518.f5H5I6V44586@harmony.village.org> <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>
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 15:04:06 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > What cases? In all my years of programming I've never once 'accidently' > created an empty symlink. The next example is fts-like activity - wrong final destination appearse which is dangerous for 'rm'. I.e. in some situation you can remove something like /kernel via specially constructed (by bad guy) empty simlink. -- 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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