<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39901 >
> [wsimpson - Sun Nov 25 00:40:20 2007]: > That's not accurate. Only when you wish to restrict the file mode mask. > Without looking hard at this code, I don't see any reason we'd want to > restrict the mask. That's not traditional. > > Is this a Fedora only kind of thing? Not really, it's more of a security thing. Quote from one of our kernel guys: "The problem is that without a mode being passed, the kernel uses whatever the stack contents are. And yes, its conceivable the stack contents could create a world writable setuid file which cannot ever be the intended operation." _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
