[HEADSUP] Disallowing read() of a directory fd
Arne Steinkamm
freebsd-hackers at Steinkamm.COM
Fri May 15 20:25:45 UTC 2020
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 01:00:55PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> It's been 42 or more years since this bug was introduced. Let's just fix it
> now instead of agonizing over it.
I didn't want to add something as everything is said,
but this sentence is a little bit to provocative.
Everything is a file describes one of the defining features of Unix.
Calling this defining feature of Unix a bug shows to me that the ideas
behind Unix got lost in the FreeBSD universe too...
.//. Arne
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