Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 08:48:29 +0200
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> That's because DOS got all confused between direntries and inodes,
> and Microsoft never recovered from that (despite having hired a pro
> to do NT for them, but I disgress ;-P

I don't see how inodes are relevant to this, and NTFS does have their
equivalent internally.

Symlinks redirect a reference to a file, so they can be used to trick
an application to access a file in a completely different place in the
filesystem.  Whether this does or doesn't present a vulnerability is a
matter of expert opinion, and I'm not an expert, but I think the
important factor here is the very different security models between
Posix and Windows, and that has nothing to do with inodes (AFAIU).