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

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 16:06:27 UTC 2007


On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:58:04PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> On 08/16/2007 05:54 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> Also, as I already mentioned. You don't get EL6 (or whatever), copy your
> software to the new machine and take it into production... You'll
> usually test your software first, don't you?

Well, you would need to recompile your software on EL6, F8, ... (the open
checking only affects newly recompiled code and only that where you ask
for the security checks by using -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE{,=2}) and don't bother
testing what you compiled.

	Jakub




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