On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:15:52AM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: > Another improvement made by using stat(2)/chmod(2) over chmod(1) using > system(3) variants is the protection against malicious filenames. The > original code should have used fork/execv instead anyway.
To be precise, this case should use open/fstat/fchmod to avoid another bunch of race conditions. Joerg _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"