From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 23 7:59: 4 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40EC37B416; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3NEwhHx084601; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:58:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mike Barcroft Cc: Mike Silbersack , Garrett Wollman , "M. Warner Losh" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c kern_exec.c src/sys/sys filedesc.h In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:53:36 EDT." <20020423105336.E72727@espresso.q9media.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:58:43 +0200 Message-ID: <84600.1019573923@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020423105336.E72727@espresso.q9media.com>, Mike Barcroft writes: >See the prior discussion; it breaks conformance to the Standard. >There's no reason a conforming program couldn't use closed file >descriptors to relay a message to a an exec()'d process, for instance. While that may be true, appearantly nobody have done anything som brain-damanged yet, whereas hordes of script-kiddies are waiting out there to exploit anything they can get their hands on. Get real Mike... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message