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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com>
Cc: davem@redhat.com, dgk@research.att.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: kernel bug in socketpair()
Date: 23 Jul 2003 18:50:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058982641.5520.98.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307231656.MAA69129@raptor.research.att.com>

On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 17:56, Glenn Fowler wrote:
> you can eliminate the security implications for all fd types by
> simply translating
> 	open("/dev/fd/N",...)
> to
> 	dup(atoi(N))
> w.r.t. fd N in the current process

This has very different semantics. Consider lseek().

> otherwise there is a bug in the /dev/fd/N -> /proc/self/fd/N implementation
> and /dev/fd/N should be separated out to its (original) dup(atoi(N))
> semantics

I don't see a bug. I see differing behaviour between Linux and BSD on a
completely non standards defined item. Also btw nobody ever really wrote
a /dev/fd/ for Linux - it was just a byproduct of the proc stuff someone
noticed. I guess someone could write a Plan-9 style dev/fd or devfdfs
for Linux if they wanted.

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-23 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-23 14:28 David Korn
2003-07-23 14:46 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 16:56   ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 17:00     ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 17:24       ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 17:31         ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 18:14           ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 18:23             ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 18:54               ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 19:04                 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 19:11                   ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 19:14                     ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 19:29                       ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 19:56                         ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 22:24                         ` jw schultz
2003-07-23 19:08                 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:41       ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-07-23 17:50     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-23 23:27       ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-23 13:32 David Korn
2003-07-23 14:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 14:20 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 15:36   ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 16:13     ` Alan Cox

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