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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:35:52 +0100
From: Christian Wiese <chris@...nsde.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: install.sh is wrong with libc.so

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:42:08 +0800
orc <orc@...server.ru> wrote:

> In case of executable files (which libc.so is), install.sh is wrong
> and dangerous.
Just for curiosity, what do you mean in particular to be "dangerous"?
> 
> The sequence of commands of install.sh from 0.9.15:
> 
> umask 077
> cat < lib/libc.so > /lib/libc.so.tmp.pid # /lib/libc.so.tmp.pid is
> created with mode 600
> mv -f /lib/libc.so.tmp.pid /lib/libc.so
> chmod 755 /lib/libc.so # failed with "Permission denied"

I just checked the build logs on my own musl based builds that are
installing things into a dedicated "sysroot directory" for that build,
and the install just works fine.
I think what you are doing is calling 'make install' as a non-root
user which will obviously fail.
What I do not really get is why a normal user should be able to install
a '/lib/lbc.so' anyway. That somehow feels more dangerous to me, but
maybe I do not get the whole picture here, as you just provided some
snippets and you are not telling us how your build process actually
looks like.

I think the info about how you are building would be quite helpful.

Cheers,
Chris



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