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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:17:17 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Possible SERIOUS bug in open()?
Message-ID:  <19971023001717.AU43421@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022142133.15884B-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>; from David E. Cross on Oct 22, 1997 14:22:11 -0400
References:  <19971022190225.DV50844@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022142133.15884B-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>

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As David E. Cross wrote:

> I thought that O_RDRW = O_RDONLY | O_WRONLY.

You better look at the actual values of these macros. ;-)

Inside the kernel, it's indeed this way (FREAD and FWRITE).  However
in open(), O_RDONLY is 0, O_WRONLY is 1.  Thus, your idea would just
yield O_WRONLY.  The worse case was an attempt to use O_WRONLY|O_RDWR.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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