writing zero bytes in bash
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Sat Feb 26 22:01:35 UTC 2005
On Sunday 27 February 2005 04:54, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:32:13PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > To unset the fscreate or exec context you have to write zero bytes
> > to /proc/self/attr/fscreate or /proc/self/attr/exec respectively.
>
> Oh dear, really? How badly designed. The man page for write() says
> that writing no bytes causes write() to return 0 "without causing any
> other effect".
Is an entry under /proc a "regular file" or a "special file"?
Sym-links under /proc/*/fd are not regular sym-links, which seems to imply
that files under /proc are not "regular files". That seems to indicate that
the section "the results are not portable" applies.
Alexandre has a good point though, so it seems that changing the interface
would be a good idea.
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