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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 1998 22:07:51 +0300
From:      =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/sort sort.c
Message-ID:  <19980306220751.23226@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199803061900.LAA05916@freefall.freebsd.org>; from guido@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 11:00:27AM -0800
References:  <199803061900.LAA05916@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 11:00:27AM -0800, Guido van Rooij wrote:
> guido       1998/03/06 11:00:27 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     gnu/usr.bin/sort     sort.c 
>   Log:
>   Open temporary files with O_EXCL.
>   Obtained from:bugtraq

This change cause sort fails if someone makes file with the same name.
It means that anybody can stop root's sort in progress (f.e. valuable
things sorted) or any user sort. Non-fixed sort allows more, of course,
but such fix is half-dancing only. Better fix required.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nietzsche.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/



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