Message 160490 - Python tracker

Message160490

Author	benjamin.peterson
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, hynek, jcea, ncoghlan, neologix, pitrou, python-dev, rosslagerwall, tarek
Date	2012-05-12.19:52:11
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2012/5/12 Charles-François Natali <report@bugs.python.org>: > > Charles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr> added the comment: > >> It would be nice if the documentation of fwalk() explained why you would >> want to use it over walk(). > > How does the attached patch look? Okay, but explain what a "symlink attack" is.

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2012/5/12 Charles-François Natali <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> Charles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr> added the comment:
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>> It would be nice if the documentation of fwalk() explained why you would
>> want to use it over walk().
>
> How does the attached patch look?

Okay, but explain what a "symlink attack" is.

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