bug#30918: Don't use syscall() to call renameat2()

2018-03-25 Thread Seebs
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:15:48 +0100 Richard Purdie wrote: > > On 03/23/2018 10:38 AM, Ross Burton wrote: > > > Please consider changing renameat2.c so that it doesn't hit  > > > syscall() if the wrapper isn't available. > >  > > That would reintroduce race-condition security holes in the > > ordin

bug#30918: Don't use syscall() to call renameat2()

2018-03-25 Thread Seebs
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:20:56 -0700 Paul Eggert wrote: > Seebs wrote: > > I have significant concerns about the feasibility of a generic > > wrapper for syscall(). In particular, a "wrapper" which does > > *nothing* but forward arguments may well be practic