[13096] in Athena Bugs
[jis@MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller): Re: Possible bug found in rpd]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Tue Jan 17 09:36:36 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 09:37:20
From: carla@MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
To: bug-olc@MIT.EDU
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 00:46:29 -0500
To: epeisach@MIT.EDU
From: jis@MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Subject: Re: Possible bug found in rpd
Cc: op@MIT.EDU, carla@MIT.EDU
Although it is buggy to close a file descriptor twice, it should be a
problem. The second call should return -1. As I recall, very early in
the kernel file processing routines it checks to see if the descriptor
is open and returns an error if not.
-Jeff
P.S. I am not advocating not fixing this... just...
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