Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:06:11 +0400 From: Vadim Kolontsov <vadim@tversu.ru> To: "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: seek to negative offset? Message-ID: <19990831120611.A14896@tversu.ru> In-Reply-To: <199908242025.QAA24724@bb01f39.unx.sas.com>; from John W. DeBoskey on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 04:25:26PM -0400 References: <199908242025.QAA24724@bb01f39.unx.sas.com>
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On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 04:25:26PM -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > The subject says it all... We have some code that scans files > backwards... > > In looking through /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c I can't see > where we do any validation on the resulting seek location... Do the > appropriate folks think this is a bug? How about posix? Should I > go ahead and submit a pr with a patch? I've just discovered kern/6184 (from Mar 1998, state: open). Seems like patch which fixes it was never commited. V. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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