> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:23 AM Rodney W. Grimes > <free...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > > Author: kevans > > > Date: Tue May 19 02:41:05 2020 > > > New Revision: 361238 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/361238 > > > > > > Log: > > > zfs: reject read(2) of a dirfd with EISDIR > > > > > > This is independent of the recently-discussed global change, which is > > > still > > > in review/discussion stage. > > > > > > This is effectively a measure for consistency in the ZFS world, where > > > FreeBSD was the only platform (as far as I could find) that allowed > > > this. > > > What ZFS exposes is decidedly not useful for any real purposes, to > > > paraphrase (hopefully faithfully) jhb's findings when exploring this: > > > > > > The size of a directory in ZFS is the number of directory entries > > > within. > > > When reading a directory, you would instead get the leading part of its > > > raw > > > contents; the amount you get being dictated by the "size," i.e. number > > > of > > > directory entries. There's decidedly (luckily) no stack disclosure > > > happening > > > here, though the behavior is bizarre and almost certainly a historical > > > accident. > > > > > > This change has already been upstreamed to OpenZFS. > > > > Until the grep -d skip issue is addressed I object to this change as > > it is going to cause people who do grep with wildcards to see lots > > of errors that before where pretty much either silent (no match occured) > > or spit out a "binary file foo matches." > > > > That seems preferable to grepping random bytes that don't particularly > contain any strings? They'd never see "binary file foo matches" in > this case.
The difference is you rarely get a hit, and now your gauranteed to get a hit on every single directory making grep * very noisy, where it was often silent or nearly silent before. > > This isn't exactly divergent from the behavior they'd see with ZFS > anywhere else. It is extremly divergent from 42 years of behavior. > Thanks, > > Kyle Evans > -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
