re: perf tools: Check $HOME/.perfconfig ownership

[Vasiliy Kulikov]

Hi,

The commit 069e3725dd9be3b759a98e8c80ac5fc38b392b23 introduced a check
whether $HOME/.perfconfig file is owned by the user.  Three comments here:

1) How other user may create a file in other user's home directory?  If
we assume he may do it, the situation is bad without any perf :(

2) If we assume (1) is somehow possible (e.g. other user may manipulate
this file only), there is a race against file creation/deletion and stat.

3) .perfconfig can be a symlink, so stat(2) should be changed to
lstat(2).


Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy
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