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authorDaniel Dunbar <daniel@zuster.org>2008-03-26 00:51:47 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-03-26 00:57:29 +0100
commit72d052896a9092b811961a8f3e6ca5d151a59be5 (patch)
tree167375f90c42facec9c79d62d2d3d0372ef256b5 /NEWS
parentf7d1c59c224f81a8bab5fa2afcaf815988f50467 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-72d052896a9092b811961a8f3e6ca5d151a59be5.tar.xz
mkdir -Z x d: don't segfault when diagnosing invalid context "x" (tiny change)
* src/mkdir.c (main): Use "scontext", not NULL optarg in diagnostic. Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
ls no longer segfaults on files in /proc when linked with an older version
of libselinux. E.g., ls -l /proc/sys would dereference a NULL pointer.
+ "mkdir -Z x dir" no longer segfaults when diagnosing invalid context "x"
+
mv would mistakenly unlink a destination file before calling rename,
when the destination had two or more hard links. It no longer does that.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]