SUID directories -- security concern?

John Robert LoVerso loverso at Xylogics.COM
Tue Mar 6 03:57:00 AEST 1990


In an article Tom Christiansen <tchrist at 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 
...
> 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
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