On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:47:04 +0000, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:50:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> I _think_ we allow arbitrary symlinks to be created, but then we should >> be careful about actually _following_ them. > > I would prefer to allow arbitrary symlinks even in GNU patch, but patch > still must not be allowed to leave the working directory. The only way > to achieve that I can think of is to implement path traversal in user > space, which is not so easy to do correctly and efficiently.
This should be working in patch-2.7.4 now. Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
