[1028] in bugtraq
Re: mail.local.c patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Samuel)
Mon Feb 20 09:18:32 1995
To: Neil Woods <neil@legless.demon.co.uk>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199502190124.BAA01431@legless.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 10:25:08 +0000
From: Christopher Samuel <chris@rivers.dra.hmg.gb>
In message <199502190124.BAA01431@legless.demon.co.uk>,
Neil Woods <neil@legless.demon.co.uk> writes:
> open(2) doesn't follow symlinks when O_CREAT and O_EXCL are set, so we
> don't have a race here.
From the tests I've done in the past, and from information received
from others on bugtraq, open(2) will misbehave on:
HP-UX V7.05
HP-UX V8.00
A/UX 3.02
Irix 4.0.5f
...so you can still have a problem there.
See the following for more information:
ftp.dra.hmg.gb:/pub/TenDRA/staff/chris/symlinks-problem-list
Chris
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