From dfc4c48df75b4a723bc17c57de28a71ec3430276 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacques Vidrine Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:47:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] It is dangerous to use globbing like so in startup scripts: 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 --- etc/rc | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/etc/rc b/etc/rc index 12073301332..3972d3c1954 100644 --- a/etc/rc +++ b/etc/rc @@ -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 . # This has changed with ELF and /kernel.config.