VFS: masquerading lstat as stat - dangerous?
Sean Dunn
sean at troublemakerstudios.com
Fri Sep 30 07:50:14 GMT 2005
In my testing, having all lstat calls just call SMB_VFS_NEXT_STAT
instead of SMB_VFS_NEXT_LSTAT works great, even when the underlying file
is really a link.. I did this because I don't want the client to know
the difference between a link and a directory, but is this inherently
dangerous, or am I breaking a rule someplace? My logic is that stat()
calls in Linux transparently traverse a link to a target directory, so
this should be fine.. but, because I'm still relatively new to this, I
thought I'd ask.
Sean
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Sean Dunn
Tools Programmer
Troublemaker Digital
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