Github user revans2 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/391#issuecomment-71058840
The change to check the parent directory is the root dir was put in on
purpose for security reasons. if someone puts in a file called
"../../../etc/passwd" there could be some serious security issues involved.
-1
I am fine with supporting symlinks but we need to have a way to restrict
what can be accessed through the logviewer.
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