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... -- 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
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