Hello, On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 05:44:39PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >> Here it is: >> >> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2006-June/msg00063.html >> >> Shall we discuss how to create the file in a secure manner >> and avoid the call to mc_chmod() ? > > I think we're talking about two separate issues. > > One is how to safely create a file (without race condition) so that we > really create _that_ file and not another one via a new symlink. The answer > is O_EXCL. > > The other issue is how to create the file with the right permissions so that > we don't leak information. I guess I proposed a cleaner solution for this > than the current one. > > I can't see any correlation between these two issues. Ok. Maybe we are talking about different issues. What I was talking about was that the current code in MC requires the chmod() that i've ressurected. From what I understand you was talking that if we change the code we may avoid the chmod() call at the end. Is this right ? _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
