Dan Cross wrote: >I was under the impression that find(1) didn't follow symbolic links? >Thus, one wouldn't ``find'' /etc/passwd if there was a link to /etc >from somewhere in /tmp. The exposure comes from a race condition between when find has decended into a real directory (expected behavior) and when the 'rm' is forked (expected behavior). If between these two tasks a real directory is replaced with a symlink (unexepected behavior) you are going to have problems. -- William