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It is dangerous to use globbing like so in startup scripts:

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rm -f /tmp/.X11-unix/*

If /tmp/.X11-unix didn't already exist, a user could symlink it to a directory
with files that he wants to wipe out, and wait for next reboot.

Reported by:	lumpy <lumpy@the.whole.net>
This commit is contained in:
Jacques Vidrine 2002-05-08 14:47:44 +00:00
parent a39bc9aac5
commit dfc4c48df7
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=96218
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -520,7 +520,9 @@ esac
# Remove X lock files, since they will prevent you from restarting X11
# after a system crash.
#
rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.X11-unix/*
rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock
rm -fr /tmp/.X11-unix
mkdir -m 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix
# Snapshot any kernel -c changes back to disk here <someday>.
# This has changed with ELF and /kernel.config.