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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:55:01 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src UPDATING src/include fts.h src/lib/libc/gen  Makefile.inc Symbol.map fts-compat.c fts-compat.h fts.3 fts.c     src/sys/sys param.h
Message-ID:  <479C38D5.3050901@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200801261709.m0QH9f2D024309@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200801261709.m0QH9f2D024309@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>   Our fts(3) API, as inherited from 4.4BSD, suffers from integer
>   fields in FTS and FTSENT structs being too narrow.  In addition,
>   the narrow types creep from there into fts.c.  As a result, fts(3)
>   consumers, e.g., find(1) or rm(1), can't handle file trees an ordinary
>   user can create, which can have security implications.

Kudos!  It's about time we fixed this.  The inability
of 'rm' to clean up my test trees for libarchive has
become a bit tiresome.  ;-)

Tim Kientzle



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