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From: droms@regulus.bucknell.edu (Ralph E. Droms)
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Subject: Re: Why not export /fs /fs/subdir?
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Date: 22 Jun 91 03:11:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: thurlow@convex.com's message of 21 Jun 91 20:12:55 GMT

In article <thurlow.677535175@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:


   Barry, a Sun-based client won't send such lookups to a server, [...].

I think the point is not that a Sun-based client would send such
lookups to a server, but rather a hand-crafted program (we usually
site "enterprising students" as the source of such programs) could
issue an appropriate sequence of lookups to gain access to files
outside of the mounted subtree.

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