Re: Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 file management security issues

[Richard Huxton <dev () archonet com>]

Steven M. Christey wrote:
> 3APA3A said:
>
> > I. There is no symlinks under Windows. Symlink attacks are not
> > possible.

There's something similar on NTFS:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

Only reason I know is because I remember the Win32 porters of PostgreSQL 
looking around for symlinks on Windows.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd