Be careful with fdopendir() on RELENG_7

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 02:42:06 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

    Hmm... is it possible to release note it after the fact (or at
least release note all major / outstanding items discovered shortly
after the release, like the accidental zfs bootloader breakage)?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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