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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/20445: restore(8) -r and -R don't use mktemp(3)
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Oh, btw, it'd be 'lukem@netbsd.org'


On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> Yes, Luke's around. I'll even be having lunch with him this week sometime
> maybe. Ask Theo what' up, although I'm sure he's already read this thread (he
> reads everything)
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> > The following reply was made to PR bin/20445; it has been noted by GNATS.
> > 
> > From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
> > To: Jon Masami Kuroda <jkuroda@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
> > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> > Subject: Re: bin/20445: restore(8) -r and -R don't use mktemp(3)
> > Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:16:39 +0200
> > 
> >  On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 09:37:22 MST, Jon Masami Kuroda wrote:
> >  
> >  > This "bug" should not have any security impact if I understand open(2)
> >  > and the "O_EXCL" flag correctly.  It is, so far, just a productivity
> >  > annoyance.
> >  
> >  While that's certainly the way it looks to me, I'm very uncomfortable
> >  with proceding without finding out _why_ OpenBSD's rev 1.3 was required.
> >  Essentially, your patch proposes that we revert NetBSD's rev 1.3.  The
> >  CVS log for that delta implies that the patch you propose will somehow
> >  break the -r and -R options.
> >  
> >  I'm not sure whether <lukem@supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au> is still a
> >  deliverable address.  Perhaps you could chat to Theo and ask him why the
> >  revision was introduced in the first place?
> >  
> >  Ciao,
> >  Sheldon.
> >  
> > 
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