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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c kern_exec.c src/sys/sys
 filedesc.h
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote:

> I agree that the current solution to this problem is wrong.  I think
> the most correct solution would be to fix each set[ug]id program to
> ensure that it has a working set of the basic std{in,out,err}
> descriptors by making a series of fstat() calls and watching for a
> EBADF.
>
> Best regards,
> Mike Barcroft

But... if you go through and fix the bugs in the various set[ug]id
programs, doesn't that make the kernel change a no-op?  And in that case,
what's the harm in having such a feature in the kernel?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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