Re: dynamic /dev security hole?

[Eric Lammerts]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Michael Buesch wrote:
> So what about this updated patch?

>  		dbg("unlinking symlink '%s'", filename);
> - -		retval = unlink(filename);
> - -		if (errno == ENOENT)
> - -			retval = 0;
> - -		if (retval) {
> - -			dbg("unlink(%s) failed with error '%s'",
> - -				filename, strerror(errno));
> +		retval = secure_unlink(filename);

Better not do it for symlinks.

Eric
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