Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu.edu!xylogics!loverso From: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: SUID directories -- security concern? Message-ID: <8611@xenna.Xylogics.COM> Date: 5 Mar 90 17:57:00 GMT References: <14198@s.ms.uky.edu> <26270009@hpclisp.HP.COM> <4555@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> <100262@convex.convex.com> Reply-To: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) Organization: Xylogics, Inc., Burlington MA Lines: 13 In an article Tom Christiansen writes: > In ConvexOS, you can have conditional symbolic links that work this way: > % ln -s "/usr/old/ld|/usr/new/ld" /bin/ld ... > This is utterly undocumented, unsupported, and subject to change without > notice. What happens if I want to have a symbolic link with a "|" in it? John -- John Robert LoVerso Xylogics, Inc. 617/272-8140 x284 loverso@Xylogics.COM Annex Terminal Server Development Group