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From: ron m. <rmi...@la...> - 2003-07-15 17:45:40
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Ken Yap wrote: > >The case I am making is that normally you don't export your root > >file system from the server. Just like tftp where normally all that > >is exported is /tftpboot. With nfs usually it is some subset of > >the filesystem that is exported. Which is why I think handling absolute > >paths in a way that gives a reasonable error message is much > >preferable. symlinks are a big problem no matter what you do. I can make a symlink to another file system easily: ../../../../../../../somewhere_else/file It can be the same as /somewhere_file/file This is a perfectly valid relative link that can go somewhere else. I guess I don't see the problem with absolute links that relative links really solves. Either way, if you talk to a server, and it can't resolve the link, you'll get an error. And let us not forget things like: foo -> foo A perfectly useless symlink, but relative and hence acceptable. I'm not convinced that ruling out abs symlinks is really going to help you much. ron |
