Re: [PATCH] freopen SEGFAULT on win32 with filename == NULL

[Bruno Haible]

Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> More means to retrieve file name
> - linux /proc/self/fd
> - windows FileInformation  of GetFileInformationByHandleEx
> - freebsd using FDESCFS /dev/fd or proc
> - solaris using FDESCFS or proc
> - osx as /dev/fd
> - irix has /dev/fd

Interesting, yes. That would work.

> - hpux has pstat

More details, please? pstat_getfiledetails does not return a file name.

> - /proc/pid/fd/ under Aix (no self)

Doesn't exist on AIX 5.1, it was introduced in AIX 5.2.

And without a working emulation on OpenBSD, it still makes no sense to use
this API, IMO. At some point, OpenBSD had /dev/fd/ apparently [1].

Bruno

[1] http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OpenBSD-file-re-opening-with-dev-fd-5471
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