Yar Tikhiy wrote:
  Our fts(3) API, as inherited from 4.4BSD, suffers from integer
  fields in FTS and FTSENT structs being too narrow.  In addition,
  the narrow types creep from there into fts.c.  As a result, fts(3)
  consumers, e.g., find(1) or rm(1), can't handle file trees an ordinary
  user can create, which can have security implications.

Kudos!  It's about time we fixed this.  The inability
of 'rm' to clean up my test trees for libarchive has
become a bit tiresome.  ;-)

Tim Kientzle
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