Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 09:24:26 GMT From: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/166553: find -delete documentation is misleading Message-ID: <201204010924.q319OQeN036749@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201204010930.q319UCJt080967@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 166553
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: find -delete documentation is misleading
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 01 09:30:12 UTC 2012
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>Originator: Richard Kettlewell
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>Description:
The documentation for 'find -delete' includes the following remark:
It will not attempt to delete a filename with a “/” character in its pathname relative to “.” for security reasons.
This reflects a defensive test early in f_delete. However, the test will not succeed, since find does not use FTS_NOCHDIR, so entry->fts_accpath should never contain "/".
I suggest that this remark be deleted from the man page.
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