Re: rm(1) bug, possibly serious

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:54:14PM +0200, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:

In sh:

$ which rm
/bin/rm
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir -p foo/bar
$ cd foo/bar
$ rm -rf ../
rm: ../: Invalid argument

$ pwd
/tmp
$ ktrace -i /bin/sh
$ which rm
/bin/rm
$ mkdir -p foo/bar
$ cd foo/bar
$ rm -rf ../
rm: ../: Invalid argument
$ rm -rf ../
$ ktrace -C

...
35356 rm NAMI "../"
35356 rm RET rmdir -1 errno 22 Invalid argument
...
35488 rm NAMI "../"
35488 rm RET lstat -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
...

HTH,
Patrick
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