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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Michael Greenberg <michael.greenberg@pomona.edu>
Cc: "dash@vger.kernel.org" <dash@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH] mktokens relative TMPDIR
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:57:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200430025705.GA12900@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21ro6w576.fsf@pomona.edu>

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Michael Greenberg wrote:
> The mktokens script fails when /tmp isn't writable (e.g., when building
> in a sandbox with a different TMPDIR). Replace absolute references to
> /tmp to relative references to TMPDIR. If TMPDIR is unset or null,
> default to /tmp.
> 
> The mkbuiltins script was already hardened to work relative to TMPDIR,
> also defaulting to /tmp.
> 
> v2 ensures that TMPDIR is quoted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Greenberg <michael.greenberg@pomona.edu>
> 
> diff --git a/src/mktokens b/src/mktokens
> index cd52241..3ab7bc5 100644
> --- a/src/mktokens
> +++ b/src/mktokens
> @@ -37,7 +37,9 @@
>  # token marks the end of a list.  The third column is the name to print in
>  # error messages.
> 
> -cat > /tmp/ka$$ <<\!
> +: ${TMPDIR:=/tmp}

Could you quote this one too? Otherwise it could result in
unnecessary pattern expansion (e.g., someone does TMPDIR=/*/*/*).

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-18  3:50 [PATCH] mktokens relative TMPDIR Michael Greenberg
2020-04-29  5:59 ` Herbert Xu
2020-04-29 17:51   ` [v2 PATCH] " Michael Greenberg
2020-04-30  2:57     ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2020-04-30  3:04       ` [v3 " Michael Greenberg
2020-05-15  6:30         ` Herbert Xu

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