Re: [Nano-devel] what is --nofollow good for?

[David Niklas]

> > 
> > Sincerely, David  
> 
> Vulnerable to what?  The symlink attack?
> 
> nano defends this by printing the "File was modified since you opened
> it, continue saving ?" prompt, does not it?
> 
>     
> http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/src/files.c?root=nano&r1=4344&r2=4343
> 
> This used to be referred to as CVE-2010-1160:
> 
>     https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-1160
> 
> Kamil

No, I mean that a file that was not a symlink or a symlink to a specific
place should not change to a symloink or link to another place.
And the above editors don't check that, though I did mention that several
noticed that the file changed.

Sincerely, David