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Avoid security hole allowing attacker to cause user of rcs2log to overwrite arbitrary files, fixing a bug reported by Morten Welinder. Don't put "exit 1" at the end of the exit trap; it's ineffective in POSIX shells.
author Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
date Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:04:06 +0000
parents 354e0c45cedf
children 14a97ab281d5
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#!/bin/sh
if
test -r $2
then
if
cmp $1 $2 > /dev/null
then
echo $2 is unchanged
rm -f $1
else
mv -f $1 $2
fi
else
mv -f $1 $2
fi