bugtraq - Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

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.