install.bin in Makefile

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:41:31 +0200

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Hi,

Chris Frey wrote:
> Just curious why on line 609 of the main Makefile in release 1.1.9,
> the directory $(FAX_SPOOL_OUT)/locks is set to chmod 777. Couldn't it be
> at least 1777?

No.

Think about what will happen if someone creates a lock (which is a hard
link (!) to a file owned by "root") in that directory, and afterwards
tries to remove that lock file...

gert

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