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- <sect1 id="ch-system-ed" xreflabel="Ed">
- <title>Ed-&ed-version;</title>
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- <indexterm zone="ch-system-ed"><primary sortas="a-Ed">Ed</primary></indexterm>
- <para>The Ed package contains a spartan line editor.</para>
- <screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
- &diskspace; 3.1 MB</screen>
- <para>Ed installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC,
- Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
- <sect2>
- <title>Installation of Ed</title>
- <note><para>Ed isn't something which many people use. It's installed here
- because it can be used by the patch program if you encounter an ed-based patch
- file. This happens rarely because diff-based patches are preferred these
- days.</para></note>
- <para>Ed normally uses the <emphasis>mktemp</emphasis> function to create
- temporary files in <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>, but this
- function contains a vulnerability (see the section on Temporary Files in <ulink
- url="http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/avoid-race.html"/>). Apply
- the following patch to make Ed use <emphasis>mkstemp</emphasis> instead, a
- secure way to create temporary files:</para>
- <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ed-&ed-version;-mkstemp.patch</userinput></screen>
- <para>Now prepare Ed for compilation:</para>
- <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""</userinput></screen>
- <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><userinput>--exec-prefix=""</userinput>: This forces the
- programs to be installed into the <filename>/bin</filename> directory. Having
- the programs available there is useful in the event of the
- <filename>/usr</filename> partition being unavailable.</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results, issue:
- <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
- <para>Install the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-ed"><title>Contents of Ed</title>
- <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: ed and red (link to ed)</para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-ed ed"><primary sortas="b-ed">ed</primary></indexterm>
- <para id="ed"><command>ed</command> is a line-oriented text editor. It can be used
- to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files.</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-ed red"><primary sortas="b-red">red</primary></indexterm>
- <para id="red"><command>red</command> is a restricted ed -- it can only edit files
- in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands.</para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
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