Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8] | Date | Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:07:19 +0100 |
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linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> If not, you could write an LSM that prohibits unlinking /dev/stderr.
> That symlink isn't even used -- at least by any sane program! > I don't have a clue why these things were created and what they > were for. The objects stdin, stdout, and stderr, are 'C' runtime > library pointers to opaque types associated with the file descriptors, > STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, and STDERR_FILENO. The presence of > these bogus sym-links in /dev represent some kind of obfuscation > and have no value except to confuse (or identify a RedHat distribution).
Think about portable shell scripts. I remember /dev/std* longer than /proc. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren. - 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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