>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> writes:

Richard> Chdirs should never be down more than one level.  It ought to
Richard> be possible to compare the inodes of parent after the chdir
Richard> to ensure nothing unsafe happened.

Ah!  That sounds really good.

Richard> If this does work, then the idea could probably be extended
Richard> to a "safe" -exec which ran the exec'ed program in the
Richard> chdir'ed directory containing the named file -- this would
Richard> then lead to a safe(er) way of doing the chmod and other
Richard> ideas.

If this sounds good to people, I volunteer to add a -safeexec to find.

Chris

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