[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#190387: openvt ignores its own syscall errors
Michael Schutte
michi at uiae.at
Sat Jun 21 14:27:22 UTC 2008
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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