[rrd-developers] [PATCH] rrdcached enforces no-link policy for base path

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today kevin brintnall wrote:

> Now, the daemon will check that a base directory is NOT reached via
> symbolic link.  Documentation added to illustrate the restriction.
>
> This allows several simplifying (and performance-enhancing) assumptions to
> be made elsewhere in the code:
>
>  * it ensures that paths resolved in the client via realpath() will match
>    our data structure keys
>
>  * it's possible to generate the correct absolute path when given a
>    relative path by simply prepending the base directory
>
>  * it's not necessary to resolve paths that begin with '/'

ok
tobi

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