Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 07:53:15 +0100 (GMT) | From | Tim Waugh <> | Subject | Re: fyi, 2.0.36 read() EBADF bug (it was O_WRONLY) |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Clayton Weaver wrote:
> So this is a unix bug rather than a linux bug?
Why do you think it's a bug at all? Think of an untrusted application that is passed a read-only fd (for a file whose only name is in a directory that the untrusted application does not have permission to search). Would you _really_ like it to be able to gain write access?
Tim. */
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