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by ikekkdcjkfke 1087 days ago
It's something else in the kernel, there we have the permission system which we rely on.

If you are serving files to web from the folder, the web framework should handle not taversing the public root folder it was tasked to serve. If are rolling your own, well now you have to consider all kinds of stuff, including this.