Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:40:52 +0200 From: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <20000915034052.B2859@frolic.no-support.loc> In-Reply-To: <56645.968935026@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:37:06PM %2B0200 References: <20000914115342.I77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <56645.968935026@critter>
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [...] > The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge > of "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3). > > At the same time I would really love if we implemented "|.*" to mean > "do an popen(3)" instead. This would break POSIX and raise a security flaw in many applications. fopen(3) *never* should perform a fork/exec. Scary. Bjoern -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d--(+) s++: a- C+++(-) UB++++OSI++++$ P+++(-) L---(++) !E W- N+ o>+ K- !w !O !M !V PS++ PE- PGP++ t+++ !5 X++ tv- b+++ D++ G e+ h-- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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