From: Erik Veenstra <pan@...>
Date: 2005-12-05T01:42:33+09:00
Subject: Re: "disallow sticky world writable directory in PATH": Why?

> > Found in ChangeLog-1.8.3:
> >
> >  Wed Sep 21 02:44:09 2005  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
> >  file.c (path_check_0): disallow sticky world writable directory in PATH (and $LOAD_PATH). [ruby-dev:27226]
> >
> > Why is this changed in Ruby 1.8.3?
> >
> > And how can I work around this check? It's annyoing...
>
> $VERBOSE = nil

I noticed that the check on ENV["PATH"] is done only once (see
test3). That means that we can turn verbose message off, use
ENV["PATH"] as a dummy statement and turn verbose message back
on (see test4). All other references to ENV["PATH"] are
unchecked. All other messages are still displayed.

Thanks.

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

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 $ ruby -v
 ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [i686-linux]

 $ cat /tmp/test/test3.rb
 ENV["PATH"]
 ENV["PATH"]

 $ PATH=$PATH:/tmp/test ruby /tmp/test/test3.rb
 /tmp/test/test3.rb:1: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode 041777

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 $ cat /tmp/test/test4.rb
 $VERBOSE=nil
 ENV["PATH"]
 $VERBOSE=true
 ENV["PATH"]

 $ PATH=$PATH:/tmp/test ruby /tmp/test/test4.rb

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