mc_tmpdir(), system recovery and read-only /tmp

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Thu Oct 3 19:01:18 UTC 2002


> Recent patch makes mc unusable for system recovery when / is mounted 
> read-only, and there is no /tmp/mc-root.  Also it does not check 
> ownership and modes if such directory existed, and so it can be used for 
>   some kinds of DOS in mc.

Indeed, that should be fixed.  I have added this to src/TODO and marked it 
as a regression.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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