Cleaning up FILE in stdio..

[Frank Behrens]

Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote on 28 Feb 2008 19:35:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:38:33AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>...
> >think we can get away with renaming '_file' to '_ofile' and adding a new 'int 
> >_file' at the bottom of the struct and making sure '_ofile' is always in sync 
> >(when possible, truncated when _file is too bug).
> 
> Truncation opens up the possibility that old executables could fopen()
> lots of files (without getting any indication of a problem) and then
> use fileno() to reference a truncated _ofile - causing it to access
> some totally unrelated file.  Admittedly, that is no worse than would
> happen today.

Is it possible and useful to read the compiled in version information for executables as it is 
done in kernel signal handling?
Old executables could receive an error in case of truncation and newer executables access 
always the extended field.

Just an idea, not sure if it works. Regards,
   Frank
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