The open() system call in f8 really broken...
Jeff Moyer
jmoyer at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 17:55:24 UTC 2007
Steve Dickson <SteveD at redhat.com> writes:
> Oliver Falk wrote:
>>
>> Bugs in the apps will be found, by abort() sooner than by warning out...
> But won't error out the call do exactly the same thing?? It closes
> the security hole by stopping the app in its tracks and allow
> the app to recover... I just don't understand why that is
> so wrong... Please educate me...
First, if your application needed to create a file and failed to, what
will it do next? Retry? That will fail. Exit? How is this
better than an abort with more useful information?
Steve, honestly, take a step back. The tools found a bug in your code
for you. Celebrate. End the day 15 minutes early and have a beer.
That's free work.
-Jeff
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