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



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);

Wichert.

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