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

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Package: emacs;

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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Message #34 received at 27986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 27986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kbrown <at> cornell.edu
Subject: Re: bug#27986: 26.0.50;
 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:33:57 +0300

> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:34:30 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 27986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> There's nothing easier than implementing renameat_noreplace on
> MS-Windows, since the underlying system call does that by default, and
> it's emulating the Posix behavior that requires complications.  In
> fact, we already have this implementation: see sys_rename_replace (in
> w32.c) which needs to be called with its last argument FALSE (modulo
> the "at" part, which is easily handled).

Which I just did.
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