Opened 18 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#2179 closed defect (fixed)

Update to ed(1) patch via Gentoo

Reported by: Tyler Berry Owned by: blfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 6.2.0
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

The patch LFS uses to replace an insecure mktemp(3) call in ed with mkstemp(3) was adopted by Gentoo, who after some poking at it managed to get it to produce broken output files. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73858

Short version: mkstemp returns an open file descriptor. ed wants a FILE *, so the LFS patch calls fopen(3) on the filename; this re-opens the file and the previous open due to the mkstemp is never closed. The attached patch, which replaces LFS's current patch, uses fdopen(3) instead to convert the open file descriptor to a FILE *.

Attachments (1)

ed-0.2-mkstemp-2.patch (979 bytes ) - added by Tyler Berry 18 years ago.

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Change History (2)

by Tyler Berry, 18 years ago

Attachment: ed-0.2-mkstemp-2.patch added

comment:1 by bdubbs@…, 17 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Updated the patch and inserted new patch in the book at revision 6397.

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