On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> BTW: safely removing a file is also tricky. AFAIK, one must open it RW, >> in exclusive mode. stat it by fd and check whether it is what one >> expects (regular file, ownership). unlink it by fd. close the fd. > > Eh, as it was pointed to me by private mail, this is obviously a load of > crap :p There is no unlink by fd. Sorry about that. > > The attacks here are races by messing with intermediate path components, > which are either not worth bothering with, or have to be avoided in a > much more convoluted manner.
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