Subject: Re: bug#47584: Race condition in ‘copy-account-skeletons’: possible privilege escalation.
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:49:46 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I removed the 'Based upon mkdir-p from (guix build utils)'
> comment because it's quite a bit different now.
>
> * gnu/build/activation.scm (verify-not-symbolic): Delete.
> (mkdir-p/perms): Rewrite in terms of 'openat'.

Finally pushed as c1283e203995c8d84584e701b965efe086d1d666, now that
Guile 3.0.9 with the *at family of procedures is the default (and has
been for a while, actually).

Great work both in Guile upstream and in Guix here.

Ludo’.