Marc Espie wrote:
> Let's extend the story a wee little bit. It seems that these days, some
> parts of the opensource community have gotten confident enough that they
> do not need the other part. We all know the situation is already fairly
> disymetric. The GPL is less free than the ISC licence fo
Marc Perkel wrote:
> The important point that you are missing here is that
> the Linux world is willing to live with an rm command
> that is broken and the Windows and DOS world isn't.
> This isn't about the rm command it's about programming
> standards. It's about that the Linux community isn't
>
Marc Perkel wrote:
> That not a problem - it's a feature. In such a
> situation the person would get a general file creation
> error.
Feature or not, it's still vulnerable to probing by malicious users. If
there are create permissions on the directory, the invisibility is not
perfect.
> Although
Kyle Moffett wrote:
> Basically any newly-created item in such a directory will get the
> permissions described by the "default:" entries in the ACL, and
> subdirectories will get a copy of said "default:" entries.
This would work well, although I would give write permissions to a group
so the ent
alan wrote:
> Imagine the fun you will have trying to write a file name and being told
> you cannot write it for some unknown reason. Unbeknownst to you, there
> is a file there, but it is not owned by you, thus invisible.
This jumped out at me right away. In such a system, an attacker with
write
Ray Lee wrote:
> But yes, if we had a full filesystem events notifier, then we could
> just toss updatedb aside and have the benefit of a live index into the
> system. It's been suggested before, at least by me. Other projects
> want this as well, such as an on-demand virus scanner, or a live
> bac
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Wouldn't be hard to make a git tree with all the patches all the way
> back to 0.01 even...
It'd be delightful from a completeness standpoint (and I do love
completeness), but considering it already takes a good 20 minutes to
clone the 2.6 tree over a respectable cable conn
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