Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 26 May 2001 05:07:37 +0200 | From | Edgar Toernig <> | Subject | Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup) |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Oops, oh wait, there's already another open point: your breakage > examples both rely on opening ".". You're right, "." should always be > a directory and I believe that's enforced by the VFS. So we don't have > an example of breakage yet.
That's just because I did a simple "ls". But it doesn't make a difference. The magicdevs _are_ directories and
chdir("magicdev"); open(".", O_RDONLY);
shouldn't open the device.
Ciao, ET.
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