realpath() security issue, potential fix

[David Faure]

On Monday 09 August 2004 22:42, Michael Pyne wrote:
> > Anyway.... doesn't QDir::canonicalPath() do this already?
> 
> QDir::canonicalPath() does do this, but from reading the source, they call
> realpath() also, at least when I checked while writing this replacement.

Then IMHO you should send your code to qt-bugs at trolltech.com to suggest that
they use it in QDir::canonicalPath(). Let's first try to fix things at the right place
before making up redundant APIs :)

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