Bruno Haible wrote:
John E. Malmberg wrote:
The open() would have to open or dup a file descriptor to the /dev/null
device to reserve a unique file descriptor, and then something needs to
map that file descriptor back to the pointer to the *DIR structure.
Do you need a pointer to the DIR st
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According to John E. Malmberg on 2/20/2008 6:23 PM:
|> Tar is using O_DIRECTORY to close a security hole, and not to directly
|> read the directory contents. And POSIX requires that a directory be
|> openable read-only, even though reads on such a fd
John E. Malmberg wrote:
> I could not find that Posix specification on the web, not even a draft.
POSIX:2001 is the same as the "OpenGroup Base Specification Issue 6" and
also known as "SUSv3". You find it on the web at
http://www.opengroup.org/susv3/
> The open() would have to open or dup a f
Eric Blake wrote:
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According to John E. Malmberg on 2/18/2008 8:46 PM:
| I have run into a problem: GNU TAR now requires that the open() call
| support O_DIRECTORY.
Tar is using O_DIRECTORY to close a security hole, and not to directly
read the direc
Although I know very little about fts itself, I have all the
pre-requisites to be able to debug the problem in fts on Solaris,
except for time. I already have a number of free-software
mini-projects that are on the back-burner for lack of time to hack on
them.
Martin
> "J" == James Youngman
On Feb 20, 2008 12:12 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This reminds me of the long-planned fork, e.g., s/fts_*/gfts_*/,
> (all public symbols) in which I create new files named gfts.[ch]. Then,
> someday, I can propose adding it to glibc. Remember, proposing the
> addition with new
James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008-02-20 Martin Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (trivial change)
>
> * lib/fts.c (fts_build): Typo correction to comment.
Thanks!
Applied and pushed.
This reminds me of the long-planned fork, e.g., s/fts_*/gfts_*/,
(all public symbols) in which I
2008-02-20 Martin Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (trivial change)
* lib/fts.c (fts_build): Typo correction to comment.
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lib/fts.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/fts.c b/lib/fts.c
index ceb8935..cb6f564 100644
--- a/lib/fts.c
+++ b/lib/fts.c
