Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API. | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:27:37 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > fp = open(<directory>, O_RDONLY) > > > > opens a default-file in <directory> instead of <directory> itself, then we > > have (at least compared to 2.0) a rather subtile change which may implies > > some severe security problems. > > But the thing is, that we want to disallow opening the directory that way > _anyway_. It's going to happen: if you want to open the directory, you > will have to use the O_DIRECTORY flag. The current libraries do that > already for opendir().
That doesn't, solve the inverse problem of all the tools that use open/read blindly.
You change fundamental things like the behaviour of "more *" when people want to read the files in a directory known the directories will just give "is a directory" messages. Now they will give files from directories below.
Alan
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