On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:26:34AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > I think this is more screwed up than just flink and open. For example: > > $ echo 'WTF' >test > $ truncate -s 1 /proc/self/fd/3 3<test > $ cat test > W$ > > IMO that should have failed.
Why? truncate() always follows links, so what's the problem with that one? That you get checks of truncate() and not ftruncate()? > In an ideal world (I think) ffrob(N), frobat(N, "", AT_EMPTY_PATH), > and frobat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/self/fd/N) should generally do the same > thing. What about the cases where frob() and ffrob() check for different things? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
