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Re: Re: [LightDM] Version 1.0.6 released


From: Guido Berhoerster <gber () opensuse org>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:51:36 +0100

* Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac () debian org> [2011-11-22 22:39]:
On ven., 2011-11-11 at 13:27 -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 10:05 +0000, John Haxby wrote:
On 11/11/11 08:06, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
Replacing the file between the lstat and the open would change
its inode and then be caught by the check before the fchown, no?

Nope.   There is no reason why the same inode should not be reused.

On ext4 (btrfs seems to be different):

$ touch test; ls -i test; rm test; touch test; ls -i test
656078 test
656078 test

jch

How about the attached patch?

Marc.

Note that O_NOFOLLOW seems to be Linux-only. Any idea how to handle it
on other ports?

No, it's specified in POSIX.1-2008, at least Linux, FreeBSD and
Solaris 10 implemented it long before that.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster


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