Re: [exim] dsearch

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Συντάκτης: Evgeniy Berdnikov
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] dsearch
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 11:14:27AM +0100, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
> > And I'm just curious, what a usage pattern was targeted to create two
> > distinct filters "dir" and "subdir" with such small difference?
>
> subdir for the usual case where you really do not want an
> attacker to be traversing upwards in your filesystem;
> dir for generality.


Isn't it easier to remove "." and ".." from dsearch scan list et al?
Really they are special built-in items in majority of file systems,
so it's pointless to put real data into such "files" and consequently
no sense to lookup it.
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Eugene Berdnikov