In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Tim Robbins wrote: > >> I'm glad you brought this up... I'd like to see /dev/devctl made mode 600 >> instead of 644 because it does not look very robust and because only one >> devctl can be open at a time. >> >> The two other security/reliability bugs I can see are that the async >> (ioctl FIOASYNC) and non-blocking (ioctl FIONBIO) flags are not cleared >> between when one process closes the device and another opens it. Leaving > >Per-device flags for these ioctls are a pet peeve of mine.
This is one of the things which are much easier to fix if we move devices from the vnode layer to the fdesc layer. A move which increasingly is pressing its way up my TODO list. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
