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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen Devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: fix crash in various tools by permitting xs_*() with NULL path
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:45:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4D5938.3060605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279645377.1723.1966.camel@qabil.uk.xensource.com>

On 07/20/2010 07:02 PM, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On the contrary open(NULL, O_RDONLY) will... The difference is FILE * is
> a struct wheras the change I am proposing in this case is to treat NULL
> as the empty string in the case of paths.

Returning EFAULT is one possible outcome, but a SIGSEGV or SIGBUS is 
also valid according to POSIX.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-26  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20 15:55 [PATCH]: fix crash in various tools by permitting xs_*() with NULL path Gianni Tedesco
2010-07-20 16:27 ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-20 17:02   ` Gianni Tedesco
2010-07-26  9:45     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-07-20 17:16   ` Gianni Tedesco
2010-07-20 17:32   ` [PATCH]: fix segfault in xl destroy when xenstore has been fowled up Gianni Tedesco
2010-07-21 13:48     ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-07-21 13:59       ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-21  8:41   ` [PATCH]: fix crash in various tools by permitting xs_*() with NULL path Ian Campbell

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