The open() system call in f8 really broken...

[Steve Dickson]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Even a runtime warning is a wrong thing to do, aborting immediately is the
> only sane thing.
I guess I have different definition of sanity... 8-)

> If you let it through, it can create a file with random mode.  Say if a root
> process creates a file with 4777 perms, do you really want to risk that
> while that process is scheduled away somebody copies a shell into that file
> and runs it?
Again.. just fail the open and put the decision of what to do in the
hands of the app... where it belongs...

steved.