From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 10:00:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83mtpbz3hy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87v941hz9o.fsf@posteo.net> <83sfz3z4gm.fsf@gnu.org> <20210821064829.GB5008@tuxteam.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38749"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 21 09:01:36 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mHL0Z-0009w7-Uz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37646 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHL0Y-0000k2-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 03:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHKzh-0008Jh-Ue for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 03:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37922) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHKzh-0002h6-BT; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 03:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3800 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHKzg-0004Fz-8J; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 03:00:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20210821064829.GB5008@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272766 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 08:48:29 +0200 > From: > > 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).