Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

Edgar Toernig
2001-05-26T03:26:02Z

Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> Oops, oh wait, there's already another open point: your breakage
> examples both rely on opening ".". You're right, "." should always be
> a directory and I believe that's enforced by the VFS. So we don't have
> an example of breakage yet.

That's just because I did a simple "ls". But it doesn't make a
difference. The magicdevs _are_ directories and

chdir("magicdev");
open(".", O_RDONLY);

shouldn't open the device.

Ciao, ET.