Re: [PATCH] bin: Rely only on the shebang line

2018-03-11 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Mathieu Lirzin writes: > Previously ‘automake’ and ‘aclocal’ were handling the case of being > interpreted as a Shell script by using a hack leveraging the fact that > Shell and Perl has a compatible syntax intersection allowing those > scripts to launch ‘perl’ from the shell. > > * bin/aclocal.i

Re: [PATCH] install-sh: avoid (low risk) race in /tmp

2018-03-11 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello, Sorry for the long delay. Pavel Raiskup writes: > Ensure that nobody can cross privilege boundaries by pre-creating > symlink on '$tmpdir' path. > > Just testing 'mkdir -p' by creating '/tmp/ins$RANDOM-$$/d' is not > safe because '/tmp' directory is usually world-writeable and > '/tmp/in