Re: [ANNOUNCE] Updated Packages in Pre-Release - July 28

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:45:51 CDT, Charles G Waldman said: If my memory hasn't leaked out of the bit bucket.... -print0 was specifically added to close a security hole in the very common 'find /tmp -mtime +7 -type f | xargs rm' - Very Bad Karma ensued if a Bad Guy did this: mkdir /tmp/foo\n touch /tm/foo\n/vmunix (with \n replaced with a newline, of course). Of course, -print0 *also* fixes the problem where a file "/tmp/one and two" fed into that xargs would complain that files "one" "and" and "two" weren't found.... -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech