Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In reviewing parts of remove.c I noted (again) the race condition on > systems with an unlink that may remove directories, so added this comment: > > +/* If anyone knows of another system for which unlink can never > + remove a directory, please report it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > + The code below is slightly more efficient if it *knows* that > + unlink(2) cannot possibly unlink a directory. */ > > On non-glibc systems that race condition means that there's a window > via which a privileged rm user might be tricked into unlinking a > nonempty directory.
Why do you think that has anything to do with glibc? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
