Re: HEADS UP: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:15:26PM +0100, Dirk Engling wrote:
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> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
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> > In other words, it may break existing configurations.
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> Sorry, I meant "pwd -P" and assumed that, according to pwds man page, to
> be default.

Ok, this may work...

> > --> Race <--
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> >> cp -f ${temp_log} console.log
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> No, since that directory is your cwd, you operate on ./ which wont
> change by setting soft links along the path. You won't even be able to
> remove that directory in the first place since the directories vnode is
> locked.

console.log can still be a softlink. I don't see option for cp(1) which
allows to not following symlinks, so I'd suggest 'mv -f' instead -
rename(2) doesn't follow symlinks.

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