Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 22:53:03 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup) |
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Hi!
> So I guess things have already been a bit messy in this > area for many years, even before linux even existed, and > in some cases you can't really do anything about it because > the behaviour is mandated by the applicable standards, like > POSIX, SUS, or whatever. > (The blocking of the open on a tty device is explicitly > documented in my copy of the X/Open specification.)
If X/Open documents security hole, then, I guess, X/Open will have to be changed. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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