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Re: Interesting console report from xss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Jul 11 17:44:37 2001
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:44:33 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> When I clicked to disable "require password" I got:
> xss-demo: realpath: No such file or directory
> xss-demo: realpath: No such file or directory
When writing the preferences file, it tries to resolve the path twice
(the second time for when it's generating the tmp file name). The function
which calls realpath() issues a diagnostic upon any failure, even though
it's legitimate for it to fail when writing the preferences file for the
first time. I'll submit a patch to suppress the diagnostic.
Bob
