Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sh

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > There are some TOCTOU races in this code, where something about 
> > the file could change in between the stat() and the open().
>
> Well, we could try to open without O_CREAT first, for device 
> nodes it should succeed, if it fails do the O_EXCL thingy. I 
> think open has enough flags.

Yes, that would probably work, and it's easier than my ideas.

--apb (Alan Barrett)