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From(David Wagner)
SubjectRe: Fchown on unix domain sockets?
DateMon, 1 Nov 2004 22:27:51 +0000 (UTC)
Jan Engelhardt  wrote:
>How about setting the permissions beforehand?

This makes you susceptible to TOCTTOU (race condition) attacks in some
cases.  Often, the only way to change ownership or permissions of a file
you want to operate on securely is to use fchown()/fchmod() etc.

It came as a surprise to me that open() + fchown()/fchmod() does not
work in some cases that chown()/chmod() do.  I wonder whether this has
any effect on applications.  Could this result in security holes in
applications that are unaware of this property?
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