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author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-10-28 14:36:09 -0600 |
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committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-10-28 21:12:41 -0600 |
commit | 1c59bb3cefff73c532033863e60e9130892a50dd (patch) | |
tree | 42f89ad649d5be625ac200f044c3f7acd5ee5e08 /tests/README | |
parent | 536a1fbe5ff47078d515a41ea4b45c4e0d794da2 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-1c59bb3cefff73c532033863e60e9130892a50dd.tar.xz |
nice, nohup, su: detect write failure to stderr
These programs can print non-fatal diagnostics to stderr prior to
exec'ing a subsidiary program. However, if we thought the situation
warranted a diagnostic, we insist that the diagnostic be printed
without error, rather than blindly exec, as it may be a security risk.
For an example, try 'nice -n -1 nice 2>/dev/full'. Failure to raise
priority (by lowering niceness) is not fatal, but failure to inform
the user about failure to change priority is dangerous.
* src/nice.c (main): Declare failure if writing advisory message
to stderr fails.
* src/nohup.c (main): Likewise.
* src/su.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/misc/nice: Test this.
* tests/misc/nohup: Likewise.
* NEWS: Document this.
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