Bug Report and patch fix

kapil jain jainkkapil at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 17:11:36 EST 2012


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:

> On 19 August 2012 12:48, kapil jain <jainkkapil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I reviewed my previous patch which causes scp to exit if the file does
> not
> > exist rather than continuing the transfer if there are multiple input
> files.
> > Here is another patch which differs from previous one in functionality
> that
> > even if one file does not exist, continue with other input files and if
> > valid, continue to upload them rather then exiting the scp program if an
> > invalid file is found.
>
> just a note: this suffers from a TOCTOU bug, though it is basically
> harmless (it reverts to the current behavior).
>
> --
> Eitan Adler
>

I dont think so as this is being serial execution and no process is forked
before that.

-- 
Thanks
Kapil K. Jain
http://jainkkapil.wordpress.com


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