Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 12:23 -0800, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> Simon McVittie wrote: >> > I think we have a fairly good picture of the costs that would be >> > incurred from using alternatives: >> >> Plus in the case of opentmpfiles; a pile of security issues: systemd- >> tmpfiles addresses a number of complex races using low level >> primitives like openat() et al. or O_PATH, while opentmpfiles is >> implemented in shell. > > Do you mean that shell scripts cannot cannot handle such issues??
If you are asking that question, then I suspect that your knowledge of the problems of shell scripting may be sufficiently limited to mean that the only useful way to answer it would be to say: Yes. > So C-code is safe by construction, do you really believe in that? What a ludicrous question -- well done for surpassing the previous one. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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