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Re: [MiNT] an example of broken lib

To: "Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] an example of broken lib
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 25 Jun 1999 10:28:05 +0200
Cc: MiNT mailing list <mint@fishpool.com>
In-reply-to: "Guido Flohr"'s message of "Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:46:02 +0200"
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"Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:

|> But in 99 % of the cases, using fchmod instead of chmod is just lazyness
|> of the programmer (don't have to remember the path name).

Think about security.  Using file names instead of descriptors creates
unnecessary races.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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