Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio

From: Jacques A. Vidrine (nectar@freebsd.org)
Date: 04/22/02 

Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:27:48 -0500
From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org>
To: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:47:18PM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Has this patch (stdio.patch) been verified properly? It seems that it
> contains obvious error:
[snip]
> Please check this code!

Thanks, Dmitry! You are correct. This was an error on my part when
merging from -CURRENT, where the second parameter is `int *'.

I'll fix ASAP. Happily, it so happens that it doesn't make any
functional difference, because we don't care what mode we use when we
open /dev/null in this case.

Cheers, 

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