On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:20, Matt Sergeant wrote:
Should we "fix" qpsmtpd config loading to check for file permissions as described in: http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38319 ?
I think I'm inclined to agree with Charlie. We're not exactly an "end- user tool" here.
OTOH then don't we basically get a stat for free when we're opening the file anyway? I imagine in most file systems the stat on the directory is Really Cheap, too. It'd be easy to at least check for "world write", maybe just the first time a file is opened.
Maybe I dropped the cake now instead of eating and keeping it there. Of course there's the crazy "can the group write or not?" situation and configuration trouble Robert hinted at. Ah, going downhill fast.
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