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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Subject: Re: a third bug in musl clone()
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 23:09:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4cd8c3d-24eb-c467-d337-2ef89c7d65b4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180102195825.GN1627@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On 01/02/2018 08:58 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> In any case it should be fixed by checking flags.

I think this would be worse than the cure because it results in subtle 
bugs if the kernel adds more flags which require different argument 
counts.  We saw that with O_TMPFILE and open/openat.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-02 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-23  9:45 [PATCH] Add comments to i386 assembly source Markus Wichmann
2017-12-31  4:15 ` John Reiser
2017-12-31  6:54   ` Markus Wichmann
2017-12-31 15:49   ` Rich Felker
2018-01-01 19:52     ` Markus Wichmann
2018-01-01 22:57       ` John Reiser
2018-01-02  1:49         ` Rich Felker
2018-01-02  3:15           ` John Reiser
2018-01-02 19:49             ` Rich Felker
2018-01-02 18:24           ` a third bug in musl clone() John Reiser
2018-01-02 19:58             ` Rich Felker
2018-01-02 22:09               ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2018-01-03  2:51                 ` Rich Felker

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