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Re: Allowing symlinked dir-locals files?
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Yuri D'Elia |
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Re: Allowing symlinked dir-locals files? |
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Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:25:23 +0200 |
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On Mon, Aug 16 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> However I suspect that the rationale was to be proper as well as "safe",
>> as this could be used to make emacs read/interpret another file if the
>> symlink is under the control of a VCS or via a shared-filesystem.
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> Yes. It could also be a symlink injected by malevolent hackers.
Can we please benevolent hackers with a list or trusted directories? ;)
I don't recall where I saw this approach used before (maybe there's
already a variable for trusted paths), but I wouldn't mind explicitly
marking certain trees where symlinks are explicitly allowed.