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Message-ID: <20041126084918.GA9892@excession.spiral-arm.org> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:49:18 +0000 From: James Youngman <bugtraq@...ession.spiral-arm.org> To: Tim Nelson <security@...alive.biz> Cc: Steve Revilak <srevilak@...akeasy.net>, parimiv@...haw.com, martin.buchholz@....com, levon@...ementarian.org, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, bug-findutils@....org Subject: Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 03:23:48PM +1100, Tim Nelson wrote: > >What we need to do - and what we do do - is this - > > > >$tmp = <base name of subdirectory>; > > According to the description by Steve Revilak which was sent > through, if you at this point do: > > $tmp = $tmp + '.'; > > ...then that will fix the problem. So instead of statting eg. > "/usr/local/bin", you'll be statting "/usr/local/bin/." (note the dot in > the second one). It's an interesting idea. However, the code we have now in findutils-4.2.8 works, and I'm reluctant to change this again unless we find there's a problem. Regards, James.
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