Re: [SECURITY] Re: PATCH: rm -rf and readdir bug in coreutils-6.7

[Paul Eggert]

Mikulas Patocka <address@hidden> writes:

> BTW. could it be possible to change POSIX on this issue?

I very much doubt it.  POSIX deliberately does not specify the
behavior of non-POSIX file systems, or of programs operating on
non-POSIX file systems.  That's out of scope, just as it'd be out of
scope for (say) the US Congress to legislate French foreign policy.
(Not that they haven't tried....)