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Re: Allowing symlinked dir-locals files?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Allowing symlinked dir-locals files? |
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Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:39:21 +0200 |
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On Aug 16 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Looking at the current files.el:4330, we explicitly check if the file is
>> a regular file.
Why is that a problem? If the symlink points to a regular file, it is
still a file-regular-p.
> Yes. It could also be a symlink injected by malevolent hackers.
Is that different from a regular file injected by malevolent hackers?
Andreas.
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