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From: | Jim Meyering |
Subject: | Re: Fwd: [bug #17877] Invalid "No such file or directory" error on filesystem without stable inode numbers |
Date: | Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:23:56 +0200 |
"James Youngman" <address@hidden> wrote: > On 10/4/06, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote: > >> The resulting down side is that the old version of find is >> susceptible to a nasty type of attack when traversing a directory >> that is writable by another user. > > I think even oldfind (i.e. version 4.2.x and the alternate binary in > 4.3.x) has sufficient defences against that. The advantage that the > fts-based find has over the older code is that it can traverse > extremely deep directory hierarchies because it isn't recursive. The > fts-based find code is also simpler. Oh, sorry to falsely impugn :-) I forgot that the old one used full relative names and not chdir.
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