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

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:

> 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....)

The question is then why to follow POSIX? It is a shame that such a simple 
operation as copying a file from floppy diskette or usb stick has a race 
condition ... thanks to standartization committee.

Mikulas