Re: rm - recursive directory removal race condition

2002-03-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Thanks for the report! Here's a patch relative to fileutils-4.1.6 Don't allow a malicious user to trick another user's rm process into removing unintended files. In one scenario, if root is removing a hierarchy that is writable by the malicious user, that user may trick

Re: ls bug

2002-03-09 Thread Matt Schalit
Edsel Adap wrote: > I would like to report what I think is a bug in ls. [snip] > Version info: > % ls --version > ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0l Thanks for taking the time to make a thorough post. May I suggest you download and try out the newest fileutils, 4.1.6, from your favorite GNU m

Re: ls bug

2002-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
> I would like to report what I think is a bug in ls. > > Bug Synopsis: ls does not honor collating sequence of selected locale Thank you for your very detailed and well presented bug report. You did a great job with that. Since most of the bug reports we get are really terrible yours came a

ls bug

2002-03-09 Thread Edsel Adap
I would like to report what I think is a bug in ls. Bug Synopsis: ls does not honor collating sequence of selected locale Description: ls always sorts its output using the C locale's collating sequence. That is all uppercase names are listed first before lowercase ones.