Re: tap(4) interface management

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:18:55PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > I think there is no difference because there can be only one fd per
> > device with tap anyway
> 
> Not quite; consider dup() and fork().

Both dup() and fork() have the same effect - extra 'fd' referencing the 'file'.
open("/dev/fd/n", ...) will give you a 2nd kernel file structure.

while (open("/dev/fd/0", ...) != -1);
is a good local user DoS attack :-)

        David

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