Update: It is impossible to fix this for mkfifo and mknod, since these programs shouldn't open() the created fifo/dir. mkdir can be fixed, but it's still pretty braindead, since the assumption under which this bug occurs are already unsafe.
-- file permissions race in mkdir, mknod, mkfifo (CAN-2005-1039) https://launchpad.net/bugs/15504 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
