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bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:39:22 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Eric Blake wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > Eric Blake wrote:
> >> Just noticing this context...
> >>> # This test is too dangerous -- if there's a bug you're wiped out!
> >>> # rm -fr / 2>/dev/null && fail=1
> >>
> >> What if we use chroot to create a safer /, where failing the test would
> >> only wipe out the chroot?
> >
> > That's not that easy.
I think that it would be too complicated to be desired in the test suite.
> > Alternatively, that test could be secured by "skip_if_root_"
> > plus intercepting the unlinkat() call via LD_PRELOAD.
>
> Indeed, LD_PRELOAD is great for this - since the test passes when no
> unlink/rmdir occurs, you just make the intercepts fail loudly if they
> are invoked.
Please make sure that if the LD_PRELOAD functionality fails that this
test is not run. Since it would be a live fire exercise and if
LD_PRELOAD doesn't function then the test would wipe the system out.
I don't think it is worth the risk for this piece of functionality.
Bob
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- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, (continued)
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/21
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/21
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Jim Meyering, 2013/11/21
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call,
Bob Proulx <=
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/23
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/23
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/24
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/24
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/25
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/26
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/26