Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:36:44 -0600 (MDT) From: Paul Hart <hart@iserver.com> To: Markus Holmberg <saska@acc.umu.se> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to remove directories made by the core-following-symlink test code? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990831211232.21042A-100000@anchovy.orem.iserver.com> In-Reply-To: <19990901032316.A8300@montezuma.acc.umu.se>
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Markus Holmberg wrote:
> Am I missing something very trivial here, or how am I supposed to do to
> remove the very deep directory structure that was made by the
> core-follow-symlink test/exploit/whatever code?
Try a version of rm that does not use the fts(3) routines to traverse the
directory tree. I found that the GNU rm in the fileutils package worked
for me. You can get the package at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/fileutils/
You could also write a quick recursive remover with readdir(3) and
friends.
Paul Hart
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