On 07:21 21 Feb 2003, Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:01:08PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > It's only a security hole if you imagine that mtime is immutable, and | > depend on it for something critical. I can't see how it's worse than | > allowing users to _write_ to files they own - after all they could _erase_ | > them, or fill them with lies! | > | > How do you think "tar" et al unpack stuff with the right timestamps? | | I guess that's true... I guess I have had the faulty assumption that if a | file has been modified in any way, it will be stamped with that time by the | FS.
This forward implication is correct. | As such, there can be proof that a file had not been modified since a | certain date. This is not. Remember that implication is not equivalence. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ If ye can say 'tis a brrraugh brrrrrit moonlicht nicht tonicht ye're alrrright I ken. An old Scotts drrrinkin song taught me by my Grandmother - Ed Campbell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maybe) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
