Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 06:00:16 -0600 (CST) From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing modules schg Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003270554300.69450-100000@isr4033.urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzp3dpck8yi.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav, at 12:23 +0200 on 27 Mar 2000, wrote:
> > When you ``make world'' with this set, are the existing files noschg'd
> > before the new copies are installed?
>
> Puh-lease. 'man install'.
Actually, the manpage is not the clear on the issue. I see in the
introduction:
"If the target file already exists, it is overwritten if permissions
allow."
"Permissions allow"? Not exactly nailing the nail's head if we are
talking about flags. Further on I see:
-f Specify the target's file flags; see chflags(1) for a list of
possible flags and their meanings.
This doesn't talk about what happens if the file exists. Further I see:
"By default, install preserves all file flags, with the exception of
the ``nodump'' flag."
"Preserves all file flags" doesn't exactly explain to what extent install
will go to to clear the current flags so it can get its job done.
--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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