Re: [Lynx-dev] 2-8-7r4 LYUtils.c won't find ~/.mailcap

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Rado S wrote:

> =- Thomas Dickey wrote on Mon 19.Feb'07 at 18:31:06 -0500 -=
>
> > That's the goal - to not accidentally point to things that
> > someone else could modify. Lynx has generally assumed that the
> > home directory is safe (which is why bookmarks live there ;-).
> >
> > So what sort of symbolic link configuration are we talking about here?
>
> Heh. :)
>
> For backup convenience I've symlinked all my ~/.* files (and from
> other dirs) of relevance into ~/sys, so a simple 'tgz -cf bak ~/sys'
> saves'em all but keeps the clutter out (cleaner diffs, easier to
> track important changes).

I keep the interesting dot-files in an RCS archive (have done that
for a long time - some sys-admins would simply replace my dot-files
with some boilerplate ;-)

> ~/sys/.mailcap
> ~/.mailcap -> sys/.mailcap
>
> My bookmarks don't live in ~, which is covered by .lynxrc (no link).
> lynx.cfg +.lss are accessed by their VARs pointing to them (no links either).

ok.  Then if I made it do a readlink, the code would find that the
result is still in your own directory, and it could recur to run the
check on the link's target.  That sounds reasonable - I simply hadn't
thought of symlinks when I modified HTInit.c to use IsOurFile().

It's less of an issue than if you wanted to symlink to another account
or (recalling some discussion on this list) link to a file that's on
a fat32 partition to share it with Windows apps...

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