jamke

> qrexec-lib from linux-utils v4.2.5 is the last version that successfully sends the broken symlink. @rustybird what is your opinion on coping symlinks? I think qvm-copy/qvm-move should copy files, including...

@rustybird thank you for noting that copying will be broken with error message, I agree that it is better than to stop working silently, but still worse than simply work...

Maybe there can be some flag to make `qvm-copy` and `qvm-move` work as they were and as they should - properly copying files, including user's symlinks? Looks like some alternative...

> You totally can preserve device files or hardlinks with `cp -a` I would expect `qvm-copy` to work as `cp`, to properly copy files, dirs and symlinks. I would not...

``` cat ~/QubesIncoming/evil-qube/x > ~/QubesIncoming/evil-qube/y # oops! now ~/.profile has been overwritten by `x`, attacker wins ``` 1. Can you please elaborate, who runs this `cat` command? If some malicious...

> It’s meant as an example of something the user might do by accident. `cd ~/QubesIncoming/someqube; cp a b` would have the same effect, since `cp` will follow symbolic links...

> Absolute symlinks make sense only in context of the filesystem they are placed in, if they point outside of the directory you are copying, the target file/dir (usually) won't...

> I recommend archiving them all into a single archive file so that you can keep the original names in the destination. Yes, and it destroys the whole concept of...

Moving my messages here: Let's consider a directory with 100 000 files. It has 1 absolute symlink somewhere in the depth, 1 relative symlink targeting above this directory, and several...

There are 2 cases: from terminal and from GUI (Nautilus or Dolphin). What the user should do in both cases to copy files and avoid user's data loss?