Hi! On 2012-11-20, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > change mode the group file to 0644 after a successfull rename(2) > > int > gr_mkdb(void) > { > - return (rename(tempname, group_file)); > + int ret; > + > + ret = rename(tempname, group_file); > + > + if (ret == 0) > + chmod(group_file, 0644); > + > + return (ret); > }
Rename+chmod is not an atomic operation. There is a window when the file has wrong permissions. Also, you don't check the return value of chmod(). Maybe chmod first and then rename? -- Jaakko _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"