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Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what |
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Sat, 10 Oct 1998 09:37:33 -0400 (EDT) |
981009 Thomas Dickey commented on Philip Webb's discovery:
>> it's a link to a link.
> that's what I guessed it would be. I'll work on it in the morning
thanx: i hope my vigorous debate with BL (smile) hasn't dented you.
981009 Leonid Pauzner commented on the debate:
>>> how can the Enemy place a link in ~/purslow ? i own it.
>>> maybe in /tmp , if the link is to a file under ~/purslow ,
>>> but that's never going to be the case with .lynxrc .
>> Enemy can't; the problem is that Lynx is using the same function
>> to check the safety of writing the .lynxrc as for writing a temp file.
>> However, when you disable ther checking code you are also disabling it
>> for times when Lynx *is* trying to write to /tmp .
> Probably we need a different routines for opening /tmp files
> and for bookmark/cookies/.lynxrc files,
> which usually in home dir, we can also check it explicitely for ~
precisely! Lynx should ask: "Are we trying to write in/below $HOME ?"
if yes -- for bookmark/cookie/lynxrc -- , avoid the security routine;
otherwise, go into security routine, but maybe allow for linx-to-linx.
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Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, dickey, 1998/10/09
- Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what,
Philip Webb <=
Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/10/09
Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, dickey, 1998/10/09
Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/10/09
Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, Leonid Pauzner, 1998/10/10
Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/10