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Re: need opendir_safer, dirent--.h


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: need opendir_safer, dirent--.h
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:10:38 -0700
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According to James Youngman on 11/8/2009 2:59 PM:
>> Here's the preliminary patch series, to be applied on top of my
>> fchdir/fdopendir series.  However, since we are also lacking openat_safer, it
>> looks like fts will STILL pollute the standard fds.  I'll have to add in
>> another patch for openat-safer, then test with findutils, before calling this
>> series ready for prime-time.
> 
> (Picking up a discussion from some time back)
> 
> How did this turn out?

They're all implemented, but still undergoing some minor tweaks (for
example, Jim and I are trying to do an off-list resolution for a potential
security hole in FreeBSD, where actions in a user-space app can crash the
kernel, and which were exposed by my openat effort).

Meanwhile, I created two findutils patches to track the issue:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27369
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27375

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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