[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#190387: openvt ignores its own syscall errors

[Michael Schutte]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:19:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Package: kbd
> Version: 1.06-2
> 
> I ran this command as root:
> 
>  strace -f -o /tmp/root/private/strace \
>     /usr/bin/openvt -f -c 30 -w -- tty </dev/tty0
> 
> The strace is below.
> 
> This bug is for the fact that openvt fails to notice that its dups are
> failing, and blithely blunders on.  All system call return values must
> be checked; this will probably require a complete code review, not
> just a keyhole approach to the particular instance of the bug shown
> below.

Ian,

I cannot reproduce this old bug with the version of kbd currently in
unstable.  Can you confirm that it’s gone?

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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