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Re: FHS compliance and UNIX sockets



>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

    Matt> /dev/log and /tmp/.X11-unix, at least, must at least be
    Matt> replaced by symlinks, as statically linked software will
    Matt> look for them there, including many chrooted daemon
    Matt> programs.

Do these programs (that access /tmp/.X11-unix) really accept
symlinks?

(if they do then that is a potential security bug - the sym-link could
point anywhere)
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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