command tac ??

2005-05-20 Thread Sp4wn Root
The command tac does not obtain to read memory archives that are located in /proc. Example: #tac /proc/cpuinfo Att, Raul Da Silva // Sp4wn_R0ot ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

Bus

2005-05-20 Thread Rafael Correa Liberato
My frend, this command chmod -R -o+rwx directry is not ok. Only using chmod -R 775 directory that i had sucess. Thanks, Sorry by my inglesh Rafael. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

Re: command tac ??

2005-05-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Sp4wn Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command tac does not obtain to read memory archives that are located in /proc. Example: #tac /proc/cpuinfo Thank you for the report. That's fixed in the latest test release. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/

RE: mkdir when target exists and is a broken symlink

2005-05-20 Thread Avis, Ed
Paul Eggert wrote: There could be some kind of -f, --follow option so that mkdir will create the directory pointed to. There is a potential security problem there, if the symbolic link is in a directory writable by an attacker. I don't agree that this is a security problem, since mkdir is doing

Re: mkdir when target exists and is a broken symlink

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Eggert
POSIX requires this, but it is arguably a misfeature, due to the security issues mentioned. I still don't understand how this is a security issue any more than the whole concept of symbolic links is a security issue. Yes, that's the problem basically. If you're about to say touch /tmp/foo an

Re: Bus

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Rafael Correa Liberato [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My frend, this command chmod -R -o+rwx directry is not ok. -o+rwx isn't what you wanted. It means If other people have permissions to the file then remove them; but after that, grant all permissions; except do not affect any permissions that are

Re: ls -lF dereferences symbolic links - ?bug or feature?

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric J Haywiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would expect the 2nd command to behave like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/coreutils-5.3.0/src/ls -lF total 1 -rwxr-xr-x exe* lrwxrwxrwx n@ - nonexistant lrwxrwxrwx x@ - exe I can see your point: that would be logical, and it seems to be