Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/05/12 14:59, Kamil Dudka wrote: > > Is there a known attack on tar that the use of O_NONBLOCK can prevent? > > Yes, of course. For example, the attacker can create a > hard link to a fifo while tar is running, which means that > root doing a backup will hang indefinitely.
star does not open FIFO files..... Why should gtar open FIFO files? Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
