touch create path TOCTOU: stat then create leading to truncate via race
#10019 · Rust · ★ 24k · MIT · updated 14d ago
Component touch Description For a missing path, uutils touch does an existence check first and then creates the file. File::create() opens with O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, so there is a race window: if another process creates the path (or swaps it to a symlink to an existing file) between…
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