Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:09:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Clayton Weaver <> | Subject | Re: fyi, 2.0.36 read() EBADF bug (it was O_WRONLY) |
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Ok, Waugh's question clued me to the fact that once you open a file descriptor write-only, you can't change it to readable without closing it first, regardless of what you may do to the filesystem inode with fchmod()/chmod().
So this is a unix bug rather than a linux bug?
Thanks for the tip,
Clayton Weaver <mailto:cgweav@eskimo.com> (Seattle)
"Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers
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