From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Allowing symlinked dir-locals files?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:25:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dgl6ycs.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83o89x6yyn.fsf@gnu.org
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.
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-16 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-16 18:01 Allowing symlinked dir-locals files? Yuri D'Elia
2021-08-16 18:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-16 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-16 18:25 ` Yuri D'Elia [this message]
2021-08-16 18:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-18 14:10 ` Yuri D'Elia
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