Re: Worrisome race condition involving half-transferred files

2005-10-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 14:33 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > This is not something that is unique to rsync. For instance, if I > hard-link a file in that dir to a file that is owned by root, and root > uses "cp" to update that file, the hard-linked, root-owned file will be > affected. True. Inciden

Re: Worrisome race condition involving half-transferred files

2005-10-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:31:43AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > Tell me if I'm wrong, but rsync seems to have a very serious race > condition that would make it risky to transfer files into a directory > writable by someone you don't trust if permissions are going to be > granted to other people