On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 04:41:39PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> On 18 November 2014 19:25, Greg Reagle <greg.reagle_AT_umbc.edu> wrote:
> > Hello. Is there a particular reason that a combination of cp, mkdir,
> > and chmod are used rather than the install command, in several suckless
> > projects (in the install target of Makefile)?
>
> To me the answer is rather obvious. install violates the Unix
> principle, because it does too many things, that are achieved already
> by cp, mkdir, chmod, etc.
The problem with this is that it obviously has race conditions which
might or might not be security relevant. Getting a file descriptor and
then performing the desired operations doesn't sound like such a bad
idea ...
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Received on Wed Nov 19 2014 - 21:16:52 CET