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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] savedconfig.eclass: do not preserve symlink in restore_config
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:52:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a02efb5b2ded2c8228d7f2d1034253be52220ff.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86cz2b5a9k.fsf@gentoo.org>

On Sun, 2023-06-04 at 20:46 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> 
> I believe that the target directory of this cp can be considered
> equivalent in terms of access to any superuser-only directory, so I'm
> not sure I see the problem with this change.

It silently changes something that was safe (but stupid) to something
unsafe (but still stupid).



      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-04 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-04 17:31 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] savedconfig.eclass: do not preserve symlink in restore_config Mike Gilbert
2023-06-04 18:03 ` Michael Orlitzky
2023-06-04 18:07   ` Mike Gilbert
2023-06-04 18:46   ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-06-04 23:52     ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]

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