Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 22:25:26 +0200 From: Arne Steinkamm <freebsd-hackers@Steinkamm.COM> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Disallowing read() of a directory fd Message-ID: <20200515202526.GZ82984@trajan.stk.cx> In-Reply-To: <202005152000.04FK0tjk006516@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <202005142017.04EKH0aA093503@fire.js.berklix.net> <202005152000.04FK0tjk006516@slippy.cwsent.com>
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On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 01:00:55PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > It's been 42 or more years since this bug was introduced. Let's just fix it > now instead of agonizing over it. I didn't want to add something as everything is said, but this sentence is a little bit to provocative. Everything is a file describes one of the defining features of Unix. Calling this defining feature of Unix a bug shows to me that the ideas behind Unix got lost in the FreeBSD universe too... .//. Arne -- Arne Steinkamm | Home: Mail: arne<at>steinkamm<dot>com
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