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    SubjectRe: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches
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    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

    > Ugh. I don't see anything we can do about this on the git side, and I
    > do kind of understand why 'patch' would be worried about '..' files.
    > In a perfect world, patch would parse the filename and see that it
    > stays within the directory structure of the project, but that is a
    > rather harder thing to do than just say "no dot-dot files".

    It is unclear to me why "limit to the current directory and below"
    is such a big deal in the first place.

    If the user wants to apply a patch that touches ../etc/shadow, is
    the tool in the place to complain?"


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