In case some people don't understand just how horrible this is: imagine a privileged user uses this to erase a user's home directory. It could easily hit a symbolic link to a critical system directory and hose the whole machine.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:Aside: can we look at what other languages with similar functions do?You will find that essentially all other implementations do the right thing and not follow symlinks, because the other behavior is a severe bug. I really do not understand why anyone believes the current behavior is defensible.--brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associatesunix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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