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Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory


From: tomas
Subject: Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 08:48:29 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 09:39:37AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>

[...]

> > Don't udnerstand why are symlinks such a big deal for them.
> 
> They are deemed to be a security vulnerability in some quarters,
> because they can potentially circumvent access rights.

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

Cheers
 - t

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