On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:06:42PM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:55:27PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>   | An alternative might be to ask pax/tar to follow the symlink while
>   | unpacking.
> 
> This might be a better option...

IIRC the security considerations were about following symlinks that were
part of the achive, not ones that were already present in the target fs.

	David

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