Jim Meyering [Sat, 30 Mar 2002 07:10:57 +0000 (07:10 +0000)]
(copy_internal): Move the block that sets `earlier_file'
down to just before the first use of that variable. Otherwise, it was
possible to make mv (and probably cp, too) malfunction when copying
hard-linked files into a directory containing at least one of the
source file names. Call forget_created everywhere thereafter where
this function returns without creating a destination file that might
subsequently be linked. Reported by Iida Yosiaki.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:53:07 +0000 (09:53 +0000)]
(age_of): Return -1 and 0 rather than 0 and 1.
Might as well keep it simple, and like bash.
(binary_operator): Fix bug with -nt and -ot, when one of the
files did not exist. We want to be compatible with the ksh93
documentation, and with Bash.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:52:25 +0000 (09:52 +0000)]
(File characteristic tests): Document the
behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 Mar 2002 19:21:16 +0000 (19:21 +0000)]
(usage): Mention that --format=FORMAT must be
a *floating-point* format, also in description of that option.
(usage): Also add the `=' signs here: --format=FORMAT,
--separator=STRING.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:00:54 +0000 (16:00 +0000)]
(copy_internal) [move_mode]: Give a better diagnostic
(using errno from the failed unlink) when a cross-device `mv'
fails, e.g., because the destination cannot be unlinked.
Prompted by a report from Karl Berry.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 10 Mar 2002 08:17:20 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Use a more concise diagnostic for
reporting replaced files. This avoids a bug in the code,
which mishandled ino_t wider than long.
* src/remove.c (remove_dir): Likewise, twice.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:45:31 +0000 (16:45 +0000)]
Don't allow a malicious user to trick another user's rm process into
removing unintended files. In one scenario, if root is removing a
hierarchy that is writable by the malicious user, that user may trick
root into removing all of `/'. Reported by Wojciech Purczynski.
(remove_dir): After chdir `..', call lstat to get the
dev/inode of "." and fail if they aren't the same as the old numbers.
(remove_cwd_entries): New parameter, `cwd_dev_ino'.
(remove_dir): Likewise.
(rm): Likewise.
Adjust all callers.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:30:06 +0000 (22:30 +0000)]
Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
cp -r behavior.
(cp invocation): Document this.
Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
links unless you also specify -P.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:28:48 +0000 (22:28 +0000)]
(COPY_CONTENTS_OPTION): New enum value.
(long_opts): Add --copy-contents.
(usage): Describe new behavior. Sort options.
(main): Implement new behavior. Remove diagnostics for -a and -r;
no longer needed.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:38:47 +0000 (08:38 +0000)]
(copy_reg): Detect abuse of a race condition
whereby an unprivileged user could gain read access to otherwise-
inaccessible files when root uses cp or mv to copy a hierarchy
belonging to that user.
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