Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions]
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Christopher W. Curtis wrote:
> then why do the scripts check '-f' ?
>
> [...]
>
> > It just runs the program. If the program fails to run, it checks return
> > codes to determine that. This is what all debian init scripts do, via set -e.
>
> ~# grep set /etc/init.d/portmap
> sleep 1 # needs a short pause or pmap_set won't work. :(
> pmap_set </var/run/portmap.upgrade-state
> pmap_set </var/run/portmap.state
Return codes are not always checked by just looking at the exit code returned
by exec(2). An exit code does not contain sufficient info in all
circumstances to convey the true error of why something didn't work.
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