On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:23:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 05:54:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Does grep -r follow symlinks? That sounds kind of dangerous. > > > It does, I just checked. I'm not sure why it's dangerous, xargs in > > /tmp/ is dumb, and anywhere else you control and should be safe.. > > Well, because of exactly this. Symlinks that create circular directory > structures are extremely common. Not dangerous in the security > vulnerability sense, dangerous in the "this may not do what you expect and > be very slow and annoying while not doing it" sense. > > > There is exactly one header file, and IMO packages should care enough > > about their dependencies to not do silly things to get a single file > > included. > > It smells like a transitional measure, but I don't know for sure. I see > that it was intentional: > > lua50 (5.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low > > * Fold in a patch from Reuben Thomas, integrating the signal and error > code from Fedora Core. Thanks Reuben. > * Lintian cleanups (recursive symlink stays, sorry) > > -- Daniel Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:35:00 -0300 Damn, I looked for this and bet I saw it too, but ignored it because it m/^Lintian/..
I can see that it wont go away easily, since there are ~50 depending packages, any of which might be including strangely named files.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
