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Re: some other problems with chmod-safer.c, chown.c, etc.
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: some other problems with chmod-safer.c, chown.c, etc. |
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Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:29:19 +0100 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
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> We could get fancier and use fchmod for readable directories and for
> readable or writeable regular files, falling back on lchmod for
> everything else; but this still suffers from the same race conditions
> that lchmod suffers from, and I'm not sure it's worth the hassle.
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> 2006-01-01 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
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> * NEWS: Document that mkfifo and mknod -m no longer set special bits.
> * doc/coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Clarify file mode bits versus
> file permission bits.
That looks fine.
Thanks for all the work.
- Re: some other problems with chmod-safer.c, chown.c, etc., Jim Meyering, 2006/01/01
- Re: some other problems with chmod-safer.c, chown.c, etc., Paul Eggert, 2006/01/01
- Re: some other problems with chmod-safer.c, chown.c, etc., Paul Eggert, 2006/01/02
- Re: some other problems with chmod-safer.c, chown.c, etc.,
Jim Meyering <=