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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-08-31 13:48:45 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-08-31 13:48:45 +0000
commitb2b23189a6e87ef8e3bbd5dfc9cc93945580dd22 (patch)
treeb90bb9218fa5da04d9cda32bcf197949c623ae00
parentdbee9b149ac143fc33209cc9a3b4bb7c236d9d40 (diff)
downloadperl-b2b23189a6e87ef8e3bbd5dfc9cc93945580dd22.tar.gz
Clarify the third case of ftmp-security warnings.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6942
-rw-r--r--INSTALL7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e78f01ee9a..f961024902 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1785,9 +1785,10 @@ doesn't use it on its /tmp directory as shipped. Also as with the
permissions, some local policy might dictate that the stickiness is
not used.
-(3) If any of the parent directories of the temporary file back to the
-root directory of the are 'unsafe', using the definitions given above
-in (1) and (2).
+(3) If the system supports the POSIX 'chown giveaway' feature and if
+any of the parent directories of the temporary file back to the root
+directory are 'unsafe', using the definitions given above in (1) and
+(2).
See the documentation for the File::Temp module for more information
about the various security aspects.