On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > > we at SuSE could not reproduce this problem neither for > > man nor for dvips. > > Ok, here is a log of what I just did five minutes ago: > (emacs -- M-x shell, btw.) [...] > You see -- the problem definitely is not fiction! Come over to Munich and > see yourself if you want. I don't think it's a fiction... ... the fact is, that just old releases of SuSE 6.1 seem to be vulnerable, the newer releases didn't - man uses open(O_EXCL) and drops it's privileges. A customer told me, that the behavior you described just happens when he opens a big man page for the first time... we will check this as soon as posible. > > Please send us a full list of "maybe" buggy tools, so we > > could evaluate them. > ? In your first post to bugtraq you mentioned, that more tools have /tmp symlink problems... feel free to tell us about them. (BTW, I strace'd dvips on my SuSE 6.0 and it never touched /tmp.) Bye, Thomas -- Thomas Biege, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg E@mail: thomasat_private Function: Security Support & Auditing "lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~thomas/thomas.pgp | pgp -fka" Key fingerprint = E3 42 DA D1 3B 9C 23 D0 93 1F B8 2E 6B 9A 45 82
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