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From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: read_branches_file ()
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:17:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080211111741.2269f89b@pc09.procura.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B01CD4.4040004@op5.se>

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:00:52 +0100, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

> H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > -       if (!f)
> > +       if (stat (gp, &st_buf) || S_ISDIR (st_buf.st_mode))
> 
> Shouldn't this be
> 	if (stat(gp, &st_buf) || !S_ISREG(st_buf.st_mode))

Yes, see several follow-ups in this thread.

> ?
> 
> Otherwise, you might end up opening a FIFO, a socket or a
> block/char special, which is obviously undesired.

At the moment of the patch I was unsure if these were supported :)
At least FIFO's and character devices are less error-prone than DIR's

-- 
H.Merijn Brand         Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)
using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x  on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11,
& 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin.       http://qa.perl.org
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                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-11 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-08 15:50 read_branches_file () H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-08 16:03 ` H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-08 16:22   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 16:49     ` H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-11 10:00   ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-02-11 10:17     ` H.Merijn Brand [this message]
2008-02-08 17:18 ` Daniel Barkalow

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