GNU bug report logs - #27986
26.0.50; `rename-file' can rename files without confirmation

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Reported by: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 15:41:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:38:47 -0700

On 08/19/2017 03:04 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>
> Is there any (good) reason that glibc doesn't provide a wrapper for 
> it? It seems that this would be pretty trivial to do. 

On the glibc side there has been a concern that it support a good GNU 
libc interface that does not assume a Linux kernel, as opposed to merely 
being a thin wrapper around whatever system calls Linux happens to 
provide. I don't know what the specific objections to renameat2 are, though.
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