linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch

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Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:06:17 +0000
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>, dsd@...too.org,
	kernel@...too.org, draconx@...il.com, jpdenheijer@...il.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch

On 2006-10-30, Valdis.Kletnieks wrote:
>
> Hmm.. and even the 'ln' worked even when z9 was chmod 0. ;)
(WTF! I'm no wonder any more, why all that selinux was brought ;)

Well, i've said already about roots in post above.
This fix is for needless mktemp and old binutils.

Fix for roots:
,--
|if [ `id -u` == "0" ]; then echo "Root landed !!!"; ! true; fi
`--
More polite fools-protection, with guaranteed permission from the user:
,--
|if [ `id -u` == "0" ]; then useradd bkernel && su bkernel fi;
`--
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