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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system (and mkdir)
Keywords: c program
Message-ID: <1185@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 27 Jan 88 16:18:15 GMT
References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP> <9472@ccicpg.UUCP> <2771@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> <224@intelisc.UUCP> <1017@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1017@uokmax.UUCP> rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP () writes:
\My understanding is that mkdir() was made into a system call in BSD (probably
\because they had just changed the directory format).

The 'old' mkdir program has a serious security bug (to become su).
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