Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:25:31 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Thomas Cannon <tcannon@noops.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I think this could be better Message-ID: <20020418212531.GA11786@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20020418140202.A5528-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> References: <20020418205451.GA11069@submonkey.net> <20020418140202.A5528-100000@stereophonic.noops.org>
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Thomas Cannon wrote:
> > And if you don't have /tmp mounted with nosymfollow (sigh...), then you'll
> > get "mkdir: install.352: File exists" instead.
>
> Nope. No errors. You're forgetting the "-p" that is present in the
> Makefile:
>
> [root@stereophonic]# mkdir install.666/
> mkdir: install.666/: File exists
> [root@stereophonic]# mkdir -p install.666/
> [root@stereophonic]#
This makes we wonder why we even bother with the -p :
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ mkdir install.34534
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ mkdir install.34534
mkdir: install.34534: File exists
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ rmdir install.34534
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ ln -s /etc.old/passwd install.34534
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ mkdir install.34534
mkdir: install.34534: File exists
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $
"mkdir -m 0700 ${TMPDIR}" would be better, no ?
Ceri
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