On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:17:32AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> And one more round, after thinking about it last night.
> 
> It occurred to me that, now that the assessment of the issue has changed
> from the content of symlinks to the act of *following* symlinks, that the
> protections mentioned in the proposal could be applied as default behavior,
> and all this can be distilled/simplified further.

Since the actual problem is that following a symlink might take
you outside the current directory hierarchy, why not make pax
chroot to the current directory before reading the archive?

Have I missed something?

	David

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