[MCOL-202] postConfigure and other programs use non-portable and possibly dangerous shell commands Created: 2016-06-24 Updated: 2019-07-10 Resolved: 2019-07-10 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | MariaDB ColumnStore |
| Component/s: | ? |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | Icebox |
| Type: | Bug | Priority: | Major |
| Reporter: | Justin Swanhart (Inactive) | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Incomplete | Votes: | 1 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Description |
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CS prefers to fork shell commands rather than using system calls. A good example of this is postConfigure which uses rm -rf and mkdir in ways that may be unsafe, as well as process_monitor which uses pkill in VERY unsafe ways. |
| Comments |
| Comment by Andrew Hutchings (Inactive) [ 2019-07-10 ] |
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Somewhat obsolete (will be completely obsolete) |