Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 04:59:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Subtle race in dup2() and permissions on /proc/<pid>/fd/<n> |
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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Peter Benie wrote:
> Alexander Viro writes ("Re: [RFC] Subtle race in dup2() and permissions on /proc/<pid>/fd/<n>"): > > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Peter Benie wrote: > > > > > They look like symlinks, but the behaviour is closer to that of > > > hard links, and the permissions do mean something. Keep them as they are. > > > > *Only* if you are doing lstat() on them. Everything else doesn't care. > > If I'm looking at /proc/*/fd at all, the chances are that I'm > investigating what a particular program is up to. 'ls -l' uses lstat() > and gives me some information about what's going on.
OK, accepted. lstat() is not the best channel for passing such information, but so be it.
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