Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 01:38:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Possible SERIOUS bug in open()? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022013546.8389A-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19971022093040.UM28723@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As explorer@flame.org wrote: > > > This was sent to me recently... It seems to be a pretty serious hole > > in open() and permissions... > > Fixed. How exactly did you fix it, this is related to what I was saying about opening a file as RD_ONLY and WR_ONLY, because if oflags = -1 then fflags = 0 and that means the file is not open for read or write which my point was that it should be forced to be open for one or the other. I don't rememer who, but someone seemed to think that it could be actually useful to hav a file not open for read or write > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >
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