On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:26:48PM -0800, Mike Ely wrote:
Hmm. I don't like where this leads... I'm thinking in particular ofAlso, we have the problem of special files over CIFS - your Win2k server probably will not like attemptes to create symbolic links.
/tmp... is there no CIFS interface to create windows "shortcuts" or are
those so very different from symlinks?
They are - steve french was looking at coming up with come method to represent such 'special files', but the 'correct' semantics is rather unclear...
(It's also an issue for Samba servers, as we block certian symlinks, in particlar the one to /tmp that kde makes on startup).
Andrew Bartlett
Is this blocking in place for a particular security issue, or is there some kind of weird race condition where you have local apps talking to a local /tmp over a symlink that resides on a remote volume? 'Scuse my ignorance - I'm trying to understand some core issues here.
Mike
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