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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#33264: Whitelist vc-follow-symlinks as a safe file variable |
Date: | Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:29:58 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.2 |
On 10.07.2019 16:11, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
"Eugene J." <w3techplayground@gmail.com> writes:It is useful to have directory local `vc-follow-symlinks` with value `nil` when you have to use symlink paths in a particular case while having it `ask` or `t` as a default. Marking the variable as "safe file variable" will reduce the friction.That seems reasonable. Does anybody else object to marking this variable as a safe file variable?
Sounds good to me.I've tried to imagine a security issue stemming from it (e.g. linking to an external directory tree with its own dir-locals values, and then... what?), but didn't really come up with anything significant.
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