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Race conditions

From: gudu () winternet com (Michael Bresnahan)
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 10:57 CST


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?

MikeB

Current thread:

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)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Race conditions der Mouse (Dec 07)
  - Re: Race conditions Jonathan M. Bresler (Dec 08)

(Thread continues...)