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Ravinder Thakur authored
File names with colon are being disallowed because of the Alternate Data Stream (ADS) feature of NTFS that could be misused. ADS allows data to be written to alternate streams of a normal file. The data in alternate streams cannot be seen by normal tools on Windows (explorer, cmd.exe). As a result someone can use this feature to hide large amount of data in alternate streams and admins will have no easy way of figuring out the files that are using that disk space. The fix also disallows ADS in the scenarios where file name is passed as some dynamic variable. An important thing about the fix is that it DOES NOT disallow ADS file names if they are not dynamic (i.e. if the file is created by using some option that needs local access to the MySQL server, for example error log file). The reasoning is that if some MySQL option related to files requires access to the local machine (it is not dynamic), then user can very well create data in ADS by some other means. This fixes only those scenarios which can allow users to create data in ADS over the wire. File names with colon are being disallowed only on Windows. UNIX (Linux in particular) supports NTFS, but it will not be a common scenario for someone to configure a NTFS file system to store MySQL data on Linux. Changes in file bug11761752-master.opt are needed due to bug number 15937938.
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