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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-12-09T20·02+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-12-09T20·02+0000
commitb17677462c56161bb00fb2d90f2c8e3e2a855229 (patch)
treeff983d26844986fe3e55fcdbb251cd8032fe5274 /doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
parent5f681988f210dd8edbb0d13da7d00e1c0e2a1769 (diff)
* Use lchown() instead of chown() in canonicalisePathMetaData(). This
  matters when running as root, since then we don't use the setuid
  helper (which already used lchown()).
  
* Also check for an obscure security problem on platforms that don't
  have lchown.  Then we can't change the ownership of symlinks, which
  doesn't matter *except* when the containing directory is writable by
  the owner (which is the case with the top-level Nix store directory).

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