On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:05:53AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> find $@ -uid $1 | xargs chown $2
a safer version (but still vulnerable to races) is:
find $@ -uid $1 -follow -links 1 | xargs chown $2
you could write a safe-chown program, but even that would be vulnerable
to races, since there is no atomic test-and-chown operation...it would
just reduce the window of opportunity.
craig
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craig sanders