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Re: Race conditions

From: jason () dickory sdsu edu (Jason Matthews)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 02:41:29 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, Michael Bresnahan wrote:

How does one code a suid program so that it evades these problems with
symlink race conditions?  Is there a way to atomically check if a file
is a symlink and open it, or is there another stratedgy?



Simply do not use any temporary files...

Jason

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Race conditions Michael Bresnahan (Dec 07)
- Re: Race conditions Luke Mewburn (Dec 07)
  - Re: Race conditions Christopher Samuel (Dec 08)
    - Re: Race conditions Walker Aumann (Dec 08)
    - Re: Race conditions Christopher Samuel (Dec 09)
- Re: Race conditions Jason Matthews (Dec 08)
  - Re: Race conditions Pat Myrto (Dec 09)
    - Re: Race conditions, mkstemp Jonathan M. Bresler (Dec 10)
    - Re: Race conditions, mkstemp Casper Dik (Dec 11)
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- Re: Race conditions der Mouse (Dec 07)
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  - Re: Race conditions Christopher Samuel (Dec 12)
- Re: Race conditions Thomas Roessler (Dec 09)
- Re: Race conditions Fred Blonder (Dec 09)
  - Re: Race conditions Pat Myrto (Dec 09)

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