Re: ipop3d (x2) / pine (x2) / Linux kernel (x2) / Midnight

[bluca () comedia it (Luca Berra)]

On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 02:17:17PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > 7. Midnight Commander 4.x bugs (x2)
> >
> > While Miguel de Icaza claims there's no known bugs in mc, Pavel Machek
> > confirmed that there are still not fixed races.
>
> I checked out cvs of mc today, and races are gone. Owen Taylor did the
> work. Is there any more problems in midnight you know of?

Yup, most of the vfs shell scripts sux
i.e.: many contain things like '> $3' unquoted.
the mc.sh example script is a perfect example of how
a script should not be written ($RANDOM is not at all a safe
way to generate temporary file names)

i tried to patch whatever i found,
all my patches to mc, if anyone cares, can be found at

http://www.comedia.it/bluca/mc/

Regards,
Luca

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