So, if one of the users in his home directory creates
a hard link to C:/ there is no way I could configure
the web server to avoid following that hard
link..following the link would display the contents of
the "C:/"

Neelay

--- "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Neelay Shah wrote:
> > 2. Is there a way for me to configure apache so as
> to
> > disable showing/following hard links...
> 
> Look at your operating system and prevent them from
> existing.
> 
> A hard link is exactly what it says it is; once one
> is created between
> the directory /foo and the directory /bar, there is
> no distinguishing
> foo and bar.  They are idential entries pointing to
> the same mapping
> in your file system.
> 
> Ain't nothing Apache or any other app can do about
> it once you allow
> them to be created; this is why hardlinking is
> protected on most
> modern operating systems.
> 
> Bill
> 
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