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...per for SMP machines yet. It looks like 2.0.32-pre5 fixes the f00f bug on SMP machines properly. All of these are available on ftp.kernel.org: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/pre-patch-2.0.32-5.gz ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/linux-2.1.63.tgz Greg Alexander - also <gralexan@indiana.edu> - http://sietch.home.ml.org/ ---- Something not being where it should be does not necessitate it being where it doesn''t belong. -- Really freakin obvious

..." part, every breach like this leads to a root hole. -- REW] A quick check shows that mkstemp() is implemented in glibc2.0.7-pre1 using 0666 as well, but that was just from a prefunctory glance at the code -- something may be going on that I didn''t notice. Greg Alexander - also <gralexan@indiana.edu> - http://sietch.home.ml.org/ ---- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec

...n''t expect a lot of people to upgrade libc5 versions with libc6 so imminent. I did test this on BSDI BSD/OS 3.1. BSD/OS seemed a lot more intelligent (i.e. kept on creating unique filenames) but a /lot/ slower than I would have expected (only subjectively so). Greg Alexander - also <gralexan@indiana.edu> - http://sietch.home.ml.org/ ---- Don''t ever do anything that you can''t later justify with "It seemed like a good idea at the time." -- Greg''s Bible From mail@mail.redhat.com Apr 02:04:14 1998 (EDT) -0400 Received: (qmail 12662 invoked from n...

...actions from the following people. An extremely short summary follows: Mike Johnson (Mike.Johnson@GSC.GTE.Com): good idea, I''ll betatest. Don Marti (dmarti@electriclichen.com): the varlink could point off the root partition, working towards a read-only root. Greg Alexander (gralexan@indiana.edu): good idea, I''ll betatest. Regards, Roger Wolff. (*) Web servers, when directed to selectively ignore symlinks will probably fall under this category, right? instead of just opening a file, to make sure you ignore the right symlinks, you''ll have to readlink a...