Hi! Oystein Viggen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With this patch, translators that present themselves as directories are > simply not touched by rm, beyond a necessary lstat(), and a warning > message is presented to the user. I believe that the code already > present in rm to prevent symlink race attacks should also be enough to > prevent similar translator attacks.
At least with the -f option, this behaviour should not occur, because one might actually _want_ to remove everything. Maybe there should also be an additional option (say, -t) for this, so that both rm -r foo/ rm -rft foo/ would skip translated directories. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user && Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ ["We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been on the ] [ cutting edge of not being good for anything." -- Roland McGrath ] _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
