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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:58:43 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, 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 
Message-ID:  <84600.1019573923@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:53:36 EDT." <20020423105336.E72727@espresso.q9media.com> 

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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...

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