Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:30:01 GMT From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/181155: [libc] [patch] *access*(2) does not handle invalid amodes properly Message-ID: <201404181730.s3IHU1GB027144@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/181155; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/181155: [libc] [patch] *access*(2) does not handle invalid
amodes properly
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:23:08 -0700
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just as a note: I need to add something to the manpage for all
> affected system calls for this; mknodat and a few other system calls
> will need manpage updates .. need to evaluate all of the system calls
> to get a full list of everything affected.
And one more thing: fixing this will make FreeBSD more POSIX
compliant with this system call (
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695299/functions/access.html
), will match the behavior on Linux and NetBSD at least:
The access() function may fail if:
[EINVAL]The value of the amode argument is invalid.
Thanks!
-Garrett
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