- "fast
symlinks"
provide significantly better performance than
other symlinks. The vast
majority of POSIX-compliant
implementations use fast
symlinks. However...
- A
symlink race is a kind of
software security vulnerability that
results from a
program creating files in an
insecure manner. A
malicious user can create...
- now-common
scheme of
representing symlinks. This "Minshall-French"
format shows symlinks as
textual files with a .
symlink extension and a Xsym\n
magic number...
- inputs. Guix
package uses
profiles generations,
which are a
collection of
symlinks to
specific store items together comprising what the user has installed...
-
reaction from the
antivirus software. For example, a race
condition involving symlinks can
cause antiviruses to
delete themselves. GTUBE – a
similar test for...
- one process, and keep
guessing the
temporary file
names and keep
making symlinks in
another process. The
attack can
usually succeed in less than one minute...
- (often
termed "
symlinks") to the
range of file types,
which are
files that
refer to
other files, and
complement hard links.
Symlinks were
modeled after...
-
runuser script scriptlive scriptreplay setarch (including
architecture symlinks such as i386, linux32, linux64, x86_64, etc.)
setpriv setsid setterm sfdisk...
- on the hard disk drive.
Basic installations of
Windows Server 2008 used
symlinks for \Users\All Users\ → \ProgramData\ redirection.
Since Windows Vista...
-
Decremental backup Takes care of any type of
inode (directory,
plain files,
symlinks,
special devices,
named pipes, sockets, doors, ...)
Takes care of hard-linked...
