On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 18:15 -0500, Linda Knippers wrote:
> I was having intermittent problems with the 'more' command and finally
> had a chance to identify the problem.
> 
> The symptom is that 'more' will abort after one screen full, getting
> an EBADF when it tries to read the user input.  It doesn't matter if
> the system is in permissive mode.  The issue is that 'more' is reading
> stderr.  That's not a problem until one runs 'newrole', which is
> paranoid about stdout and stderr, reopening them as WRONLY.
> 
> I filed a bugzilla on the problem.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218880
> 
> Do we change 'more'?  I wonder what else will stop working with the
> current 'newrole' behavior.

I think we revert newrole to its prior behavior (it used to open all
three descriptors rw, but that was "cleaned up").

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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