Re: RE: LUA 4.x - filesystem access limit?

["D Burgess" <db@...>]

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>On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:01, Zdenek Stangl wrote:
>> Then I will parse the path and cutoff all preceeding '..\\'
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>Surely this doesn't protect you from a user asking for
>.../wibble/../../foo ?
>
>There's no simple way of doing this.  Does Windows have a call to find
>the canonical path and leaf name of a path you give it?  If it does,
>making use of that and then comparing it to the directory you want to
>keep the script contained in may be the easiest way.
>
>Does Windows have symlinks, or similar concepts?  If not, then you're
>job's a little easier too :)
>
>-- 
>Rob Kendrick, Pepperfish Limited                   http://www.pepperfish.net/
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