From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing)
To: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it ispossible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:50:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716155028.GE19073@lavos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070716154559.GD19073@lavos.net>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:45:59AM -0500, Brian Downing wrote:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/unlink.html
>
> | The path argument must not name a directory unless the process has
> | appropriate privileges and the implementation supports using unlink() on
> | directories.
>
> The above seems to imply that implementations are free to do something
> with directories passed to unlink, and that it is the responsibility
> if the user not to do that unless they know what is going to happen.
Also, the HISTORY section of the FreeBSD manpages states:
| The unlink system call traditionally allows the super-user to unlink
| directories which can damage the filesystem integrity. This
| implementation no longer permits it.
Great.
-bcd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-16 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-16 10:08 "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it is possible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris) Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 10:43 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 10:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-16 12:35 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 10:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-16 12:39 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 12:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-16 13:15 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 16:40 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 12:46 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 13:36 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 16:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-16 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-16 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-16 17:17 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 18:09 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-18 8:50 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-18 15:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 18:15 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 13:45 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-16 14:35 ` "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it ispossible " Johannes Sixt
2007-07-16 15:45 ` Brian Downing
2007-07-16 15:50 ` Brian Downing [this message]
2007-07-16 19:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-16 17:12 ` Thomas Glanzmann
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