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

[Steve Dickson]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:12:24AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Bring down servers, costing people time and money because apps
>> that have run for years suddenly abort is just not the right
>> way to handle this.. imho..
> 
> Only people that run their $$$$$$ servers on rawhide...
No.. but they do on RHEL and today's rawhide is tomorrow's RHEL...

> 
>> Give people a chance to correct their code, with stern warnings,
>> and then, in the next release, have the applications abort...
>> Why is this such a bad idea?
> 
> It is not yet F8test2, there is plenty of time to fix all or most
> of these bugs still in rawhide.
> Most uses of open(1) are actually with compile time constant
> second argument and in that case glibc will issue compile time
> errors when open ("foo", O_CREAT|O_RDWR); etc. is seen.
> Only when it is known only at runtime we do runtime checking.
So is there a possibility of making that runtime check a warning
instead of an abort?

steved.