On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 07:51:19AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
For upstream man-pages-3.05 I've changed the first sentence of the paragraph to be the simpler:O_EXCL is only supported on NFS when using NFSv3 or later on kernel 2.6 or later. Does that work for you?
Yes, that's fine. Thank you.
It might be useful to also explain whether NFS O_EXCL is broken with regard to symlink attacks, as well as locking.This is a logically separate question; could you please file it in another bug report. (Filing logically separate bugs in the same report makes it difficult to close a report until both bugs are addressed.)
I assumed that it would be part of fixing the wording in general, so I didn't consider it a separate issue. If you think it belongs in another bug report, please feel free to clone it. I don't consider this question to be sufficient to keep the report open, so feel free to close this bug if you want to. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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