Messages in this thread | | | From | (Peter Benie) | Subject | Re: Serious flaw in glibc ? | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:55:52 +0100 |
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Linus Torvalds writes ("Re: Serious flaw in glibc ?"): > > Finally, I should probably just add a "opendir()" system call. That way > I could return EISDIR for normal open() calls some day in the future > when we can drop the old binary support. Consider it done.
I agree that open() should not work on directories, however, it will break existing programs that use open() followed by fchdir().
Peter
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