Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 02:09:44 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Possible SERIOUS bug in open()? Message-ID: <199710220909.CAA13732@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 01:38:11 -0700 (PDT) "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org> wrote: > How exactly did you fix it, this is related to what I was saying about > opening a file as RD_ONLY and WR_ONLY, because if oflags = -1 then fflags > = 0 and that means the file is not open for read or write which my point > was that it should be forced to be open for one or the other. I don't > rememer who, but someone seemed to think that it could be actually useful > to hav a file not open for read or write How would opening for !read !write be useful? What else could you possibly want to do? (Yes, this is a trick question :-) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: +1 415 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 415 428 6939
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