Re: Uploaded cfengine 1.4.12-2 (source i386 sparc) to master

[Ben Collins <bmc@visi.net>]

On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 03:47:38AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> >  cfengine (1.4.12-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
> >  .
> >    * Fixed src/tidy.c by unlinking ~/.cfengine.rm prior to opening it for
> >      writing to avoid DoS attempts.
>
> Which still does not fix the problem but only changes is into a race
> that isn't even that hard to win. The proper solution is the create the
> file atomically using open(.., O_CREAT|O_EXCL);

Building it now...upload to follow soon...

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