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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2015-11-14 05:21:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2015-11-14 05:21:46 +0100 |
| commit | 0bea7672957f142d8af58d04ade70b91e7ffb727 (patch) | |
| tree | 5013126e36210705698072cc429a1198e01f5ce5 /src | |
| parent | change prototypes for humanmode and machinemode (diff) | |
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doc: cleanname is not symlink-safe either
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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diff --git a/src/libgen.c b/src/libgen.c index 9f24da6..41f3dd0 100644 --- a/src/libgen.c +++ b/src/libgen.c @@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ char* dirname(char* filename) * '..' directory components that should resolve up beyond '/', * are removed. Note that this can in fact mean that the resulting * path is not the same file if the processes is `chroot`:ed. + * Additionally, and more important, there is no consideration for + * symbolic links. For example, '/a/b/c/..' resolves to '/a/b', + * but if any of the directors are symbolic links, the real path + * is not necessarily '/a/b'. * * This is a slibc extension. * |