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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:40:08 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r184300 - in stable/7/lib: libc/stdlib libutil
Message-ID:  <20081027194008.GO6808@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200810271422.06751.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200810262155.m9QLtJG5096815@svn.freebsd.org> <200810271422.06751.jhb@freebsd.org>

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* John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I would perhaps add a note that the duplicate revoke() in openpty() is on=
ly to=20
> support legacy libc's with broken unlockpt() routines.  We could maybe re=
move=20
> the revoke()/ptsname() from openpty() on 8.x though as all 8.x machines=
=20
> should have a working unlockpt().

Good point, but I'd rather leave revoke() there for at least a couple of
months. If people just download the openpty() source from -CURRENT
through cvsweb and use it as an example for their own application, they
could create a potential security issue when they run the application on
RELENG_*.

Shall we leave the revoke() call there for now, but remove it before we
ship 8.0-RELEASE?

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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