Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:39:57PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Note that there is no way to get levels inbetween if the translators don't
> > > provide them.
> >
> > This has long be
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:39:57PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Note that there is no way to get levels inbetween if the translators don't
> > provide them.
>
> This has long been noticed; you can always go one at a time if you are
> the
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Note that there is no way to get levels inbetween if the translators don't
> provide them.
This has long been noticed; you can always go one at a time if you are
the owner.
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* [Joshua Judson Rosen]
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:08:58PM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote:
>
>> People will expect -Rf to as safe from subversion on the Hurd as it is
>> in any other Unix like OS.
>
> Right..., which normally includes descending through mountpoints, doesn't it?
Root descending i
* [Oystein Viggen]
> I believe that the code already
> present in rm to prevent symlink race attacks should also be enough to
> prevent similar translator attacks.
Actually, I don't believe this anymore.
I guess that when you stat . in the root of a translator directory, you
are talking to the
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:08:58PM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote:
> * [Joshua Judson Rosen]
> > How about an -x/--one-file-system option like cp has?
>
> Problem is, you never ever want to recurse into directory translators
> belonging to other people,
I can't agree with the `never' in this state
* [Joshua Judson Rosen]
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:57:56PM +0200, Wolfgang J?hrling wrote:
>
>> 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 tha
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:57:56PM +0200, Wolfgang J?hrling wrote:
> 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.
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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 rac
Hi
I have made a small patch to rm, which I believe will work around the
problems wrt. translators placed by malicious or misguided users as
previously discussed on help-hurd. In my first attempt to create such a
patch, I have favoured simplicity over advanced features, so it could
probably be d
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