Re: Race conditions

Jason Matthews (jason@dickory.sdsu.edu)
Thu, 8 Dec 1994 02:41:29 -0800 (PST)

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On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, Michael Bresnahan wrote:

> How does one code a suid program so that it evades these problems with
> symlink race conditions?  Is there a way to atomically check if a file
> is a symlink and open it, or is there another stratedgy?


Simply do not use any temporary files...

Jason

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