Be careful with fdopendir() on RELENG_7

Xin LI delphij at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 01:07:25 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>> This isn't a hypothetical concern.  When I initially tried gtar
>> 1.23 on 7.3/amd64, it left a trail of coredumps because of this.
>
>    Is there a bug outstanding for this?

This has been fixed in RELENG_7 before 7.3-RELEASE but re@ considered
it too late so the change didn't make it into the final release.  No,
there is no outstanding bug report as I am aware.

Cheers,
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