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Diffstat (limited to 'src/chown-core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/chown-core.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/chown-core.c b/src/chown-core.c index 0608eb4c7..086998659 100644 --- a/src/chown-core.c +++ b/src/chown-core.c @@ -193,9 +193,9 @@ describe_change (const char *file, enum Change_status changed, /* Change the owner and/or group of the FILE to UID and/or GID (safely) only if REQUIRED_UID and REQUIRED_GID match the owner and group IDs - of FILE. ORIG_ST must be the result of `stat'ing FILE. + of FILE. ORIG_ST must be the result of 'stat'ing FILE. - The `safely' part above means that we can't simply use chown(2), + The 'safely' part above means that we can't simply use chown(2), since FILE might be replaced with some other file between the time of the preceding stat/lstat and this chown call. So here we open FILE and do everything else via the resulting file descriptor. @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ change_file_owner (FTS *fts, FTSENT *ent, } /* On some systems (e.g., GNU/Linux 2.4.x), - the chown function resets the `special' permission bits. + the chown function resets the 'special' permission bits. Do *not* restore those bits; doing so would open a window in which a malicious user, M, could subvert a chown command run by some other user and operating on files in a directory |