On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 11:14:27AM +0100, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: > > And I'm just curious, what a usage pattern was targeted to create two > > distinct filters "dir" and "subdir" with such small difference? > > subdir for the usual case where you really do not want an > attacker to be traversing upwards in your filesystem; > dir for generality.
Isn't it easier to remove "." and ".." from dsearch scan list et al? Really they are special built-in items in majority of file systems, so it's pointless to put real data into such "files" and consequently no sense to lookup it. -- Eugene Berdnikov -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
