Re: bin/55815: tar opens device files

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

If we’re talking about “ensure the file we’re opening is a regular file”, won’t O_REGULAR do that you want?

Yes, but that suffers from TOCTOA too:

if (open(path, O_REGULAR) == -1)

fstat(path, &st);

But that's probably good enough.

christos

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