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author | Indrajith K L | 2022-12-03 17:00:20 +0530 |
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committer | Indrajith K L | 2022-12-03 17:00:20 +0530 |
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diff --git a/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.tests b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.tests new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b3d74b --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.tests @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 06:07:06 -0600 (MDT) +From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> +Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu, sysstaff@math.utah.edu, othmer@math.utah.edu +Subject: gawk-3.0.4 and a GNU/Linux gotcha + +Yesterday, I was assisting a colleague install some software on his +GNU/Linux machine for which uname -r reports 2.2.14. + +A (mis)feature of this system, which I've never encountered before, +broke the build of one of my programs, and also of gawk-3.0.4. + +Namely, the kernel will not execute anything that resides in /tmp, +though it will if the same script is in /usr/tmp! + +% cat /tmp/foo.sh +#! /bin/sh +echo hello + +ls -l /tmp/foo.sh +-rwxr-xr-x 1 othmer math 22 Apr 21 10:34 /tmp/foo.sh* + +% /tmp/foo.sh +bash: /tmp/foo.sh: Permission denied + +% cp /tmp/foo.sh /usr/tmp + +% /usr/tmp/foo.sh +hello + +Thus, programs that do a temporary install in /tmp, as some of mine do +in order to run the validation suite, will fail. + +gawk-3.0.4, and likely other gawk versions, hits this problem too. It +fails because test/poundbang starts with + +#! /tmp/gawk -f + +I tracked down where it comes from: + +% grep /tmp /etc/fstab +/dev/hda3 /tmp ext2 rw,nosuid,noexec,nouser,auto,async,nodev 1 1 + !!!!!! + +Since this is done via a mount command, potentially ANY directory tree +could be mounted with noexec. |