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Re: Subversion fails to checkout new working set when $HOME is automounted

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent-svn_at_vinc17.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:50:10 +0100

On 2020-01-23 12:44:02 +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> If the automounter already yields ENOENT for the ../.svn directory
> probe, everything is not going to be a problem. I think the point here
> is the automounter (eventually, after "thinking" about it for about 1
> s) offers a successful stat() result for ../.svn (probably because
> that directory *might be* a possible mount point for the automounter)
> but then yields EIO when trying to access anything within that
> ficticous directory (because nothing is actually mounted there).

Do you mean that Subversion tries to go higher in the hierarchy
without checking the owner of the directory? If it does, this is
a security issue.

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