Re: SECURITY HOLE in namei.c ??

Hoyer, Harald (root@harryh.wg41.rus.uni-stuttgart.de)
Sun, 1 Sep 1996 23:52:34 -0100 (GMT-0100)

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Aaron Ucko wrote:
> As for the EISDIR stuff, have you checked relevant standards documents?
> I'm pretty sure that Linux's behavior is correct.
>
UNLINK(2) Linux Programmer's Manual UNLINK(2)

NAME
unlink - delete a name and possibly the file it refers to

SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>

int unlink(const char *pathname);

DESCRIPTION
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ERRORS
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EISDIR pathname refers to a directory.

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CONFORMING TO
SVID, AT&T, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3

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