Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

[Bjoern Fischer]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
[...]
> The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge
> of "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3).
> 
> At the same time I would really love if we implemented "|.*" to mean
> "do an popen(3)" instead.

This would break POSIX and raise a security flaw in many
applications. fopen(3) *never* should perform a fork/exec.
Scary.

  Bjoern

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