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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SUID directories -- security concern?
Message-ID: <100398@convex.convex.com>
Date: 6 Mar 90 13:11:45 GMT
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In article <8611@xenna.Xylogics.COM> loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
>In an article Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
>> In ConvexOS, you can have conditional symbolic links that work this way:
>> % ln -s "/usr/old/ld|/usr/new/ld" /bin/ld 
>
>What happens if I want to have a symbolic link with a "|" in it?

Don't do that. :-)  You're right: there's no mechanism in the kernel
for interpreting \| as a literal |.

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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