"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/06, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The resulting down side is that the old version of find is >> susceptible to a nasty type of attack when traversing a directory >> that is writable by another user. > > I think even oldfind (i.e. version 4.2.x and the alternate binary in > 4.3.x) has sufficient defences against that. The advantage that the > fts-based find has over the older code is that it can traverse > extremely deep directory hierarchies because it isn't recursive. The > fts-based find code is also simpler.
Oh, sorry to falsely impugn :-) I forgot that the old one used full relative names and not chdir. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
