Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:15:32 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, jslaby@suse.cz,
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        viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alan@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: um: TTY fixes (?)
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>  open_tty() closes all the old file descriptors after tty open:

It needs to close them before.
> 
>     vhangup();
>     ...
> 	fd = open(tty, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
>     ...
> 
> 	flags = fcntl(fd, F_GETFL);
> 	flags &= ~O_NONBLOCK;
> 	fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, flags);
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < fd; i++)
> 		close(i);
> 	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
> 		if (fd != i)
> 			dup2(fd, i);
> 	if (fd >= 3)
> 		close(fd);
> 
> we use this for pretty long time (17+ years).
> 
> > If I add:
> >         fclose(stdin);
> >         fclose(stdout);
> >         fclose(stderr);
> > before the call to vhangup() login works like charm. :-)
> > 
> > Karel, what do you think?
> 
>  It's probably no problem to close all the file descriptors before
>  vhangup(), but it would be nice to know why we need this change after
>  20 years :-)

Because we want to actually fix the standards (and security) violation
that means it has happened to work on the console for 20 years.

Actually I'd prefer a clever solution which can spot all the fds are the
same process so we can keep compatibility but I've not found a sensible
way to do that.

Alan
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