SUID directories -- security concern?

[Tom Christiansen]

In article <8611 at xenna.Xylogics.COM> loverso at Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
>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 
>
>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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