0001-savewd-remove-SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE.patchDescription: Text document
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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#21534: Bug in mkdir?! |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:09:35 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 |
Sebastian Unger wrote:
Why is it trying to open the directory in the first place?
Security.Apparently POSIX doesn't allow this level of paranoia for mkdir -p, so I removed it in the attached Gnulib patch, and this should appear in the next coreutils release.
A filesystem that doesn't let you read your own directory that you just created is likely to run into other problems like this -- i.e., the practice may introduce more security problems than it closes. But I digress.
0001-savewd-remove-SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE.patch
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