GNU bug report logs - #15926
RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, patch

Merged with 15943

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #149 received at 15926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 15926 <15926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make
 'rm' use 'remove' call
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:36:39 +0100

On 11/22/2013 04:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Just noticing this context...
>
>>
>>   # This test is too dangerous -- if there's a bug you're wiped out!
>>   # rm -fr / 2>/dev/null && fail=1
>
> What if we use chroot to create a safer /, where failing the test would
> only wipe out the chroot?

That's not that easy.
Alternatively, that test could be secured by "skip_if_root_"
plus intercepting the unlinkat() call via LD_PRELOAD.

Have a nice day,
Berny
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