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doc: document dangerous symlink behavior #49154

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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions doc/api/permissions.md
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Expand Up @@ -568,6 +568,11 @@ There are constraints you need to know before using this system:
* Relative paths are not supported through the CLI (`--allow-fs-*`).
* The model does not inherit to a child node process.
* The model does not inherit to a worker thread.
* Symbolic links will be followed even to locations outside of the set of paths
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that access has been granted to. Relative symbolic links may allow access to
arbitrary files and directories. When starting applications with the
permission model enabled, you must ensure that no paths to which access has
been granted contain relative symbolic links.
* When creating symlinks the target (first argument) should have read and
write access.
* Permission changes are not retroactively applied to existing resources.
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