Re: cp, ln, mv, install: check for vulnerable target directories

[Paul Eggert]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I am thinking of reverting my patch (at Pádraig's gentle suggestion) and coming 
> up with a better one in the light of  recent comments. Perhaps it'll be two 
> patches, since we have two kinds of attacks here and that's causing some of the 
> confusion.

As I have been distracted by other matters, I just now reverted the patch on 
coreutils master. Although I still plan to come up with a better one at some 
point, I don't want coreutils master to be hanging for any longer.