Re: rm patch suggestion

[Wolfgang Jährling]

Hi!

Oystein Viggen <oysteivi@tihlde.org> wrote:
> With this patch, translators that present themselves as directories are
> simply not touched by rm, beyond a necessary lstat(), and a warning
> message is presented to the user.  I believe that the code already
> present in rm to prevent symlink race attacks should also be enough to
> prevent similar translator attacks.

At least with the -f option, this behaviour should not occur, because
one might actually _want_ to remove everything. Maybe there should also
be an additional option (say, -t) for this, so that both

rm -r foo/
rm -rft foo/

would skip translated directories.

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang


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