Re: mknod

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Costa on 4/14/2005 8:07 AM: Hi Everybody, I have a problem on cygwin: You should ask this question on the cygwin mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mknod pipe p POSIX states that named pipes (aka fifos) are only portable if used

Re: Bug#304556: file permissions race in mkdir, mknod, mkfifo (CAN-2005-1039)

2005-04-15 Thread Paul Eggert
My kneejerk reaction is that it's not worth making this change. The attack in question will work against almost any program that is operated in an insecure directory, including the chmod program itself. It'd be a real pain to work around this problem in all applications, one at a time, and it's

Re: I need a bi-directional FIFO

2005-04-15 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:07:13PM -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: before I disconnect my modem and install a serial loop-back cable, do I have any software alternatives to this problem? Sounds like you want a PF_LOCAL socket. See 'man unix' for information about them. (This isn't really a

Re: cygwin failing tests/mv/mv-special-1

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 4/14/2005 2:37 PM: Thanks for that bug report. I installed this patch: does it fix both your problems? Almost - there are some further cleanups that can be made. First, we might as well dereference symlinks (one of the

Bug in function date

2005-04-15 Thread Leonardo Marques da Cruz
Dear Sir, I'm using red hat enterprise and I'm having problems with function date. When I call it with the sintax bellow, it returns me the following line, as expected: comand: date -d 2005-02-18 00:00:00 24 hour +%y%m%d%H returns: 05021900 comand: date -d 2005-02-20

Re: Bug#304556: file permissions race in mkdir, mknod, mkfifo (CAN-2005-1039)

2005-04-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My kneejerk reaction is that it's not worth making this change. The attack in question will work against almost any program that is operated in an insecure directory, including the chmod program itself. It'd be a real pain to work around this problem in