uucp bug overwriting existing file

[Derek E. Terveer]

les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:

>There is another problem that appeared in SysVr3.1 that apparently
>has something to do with security.  If you start up uucico under
>[... description of 2+ level directory creation causing failure]

Aha!  Yes, i have seen this problem before and never got around to
tracking down the exact reasons for it.  I did notice that it failed
when directories were created.  BTW this is present in Esix 5.3.2-D.

derek
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