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Author neologix
Recipients benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, hynek, larry, milko.krachounov, neologix, pitrou, tarek
Date 2013-02-22.19:29:42
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> Shouldn't you try to make the permission removal atomic?
> Otherwise there's a window of opportunity to exploit the suid bit.

Actually there's already a race even without setuid bit: http://bugs.python.org/issue15100

All metadat should be set atomically.
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