On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:39 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > Sorry ignore the previous email I misunderstood what was going on. > > You can open a file O_CREAT with neither read or write, you can open a file > with O_CREAT|O_WRONLY but not give permissions in the file mode. You must > provide the third argument so the abort is right. If you don't then the permissions > are set based on the random values (eg the return address) Return address? Even on crappy register-starved architectures like i386 we'd have the three arguments in registers, wouldn't we? The permissions are set based on the contents of some register, surely? -- dwmw2 -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
