From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 17 18:31:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5390F37B406 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:31:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f5I1Ukc58631; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 05:30:46 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 05:30:43 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Matt Dillon Cc: Jordan Hubbard , 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> References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106180100.f5I106A09487@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:00:06PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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