Good question. In UNIX, a link can by-pass the requirement that a file
have "execute" permissions all the way up to the root, but a link also
has no permissions itself and depends on the permissions assigned to the
linked file itself.
As a starting point, I suggest saying only regular files and directories
are included in <path>, <path>/*, <path>/**, <path>/+, and <path>/++ sets.
I'll do some research tomorrow to see how Java FilePermission (which has
very similar syntax) handles links.
-Anne
"bill parducci" <> wrote:
>Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:04:12 -0700
>what behavior are you assuming for the pursuit of symbolic links in this
>example? are they followed?
>
>
>is sydney.east.sun.com:/home/aa74233/abc.html in
>
>file://sydney.east.sun.com/home/aa74233/++
>
>if
>
>abc.html -> /root/abc.html
>
>?
>
>b
Anne
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Anne H. Anderson
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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