On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 04:18:41PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
>
> You need to watch out for the problem that programs print messages to
> stdout or stderr without checking first whether fd 0, 1, 2 actually were
> open when the program was started. If some init variant opens /dev/console,
> and dups the fd twice to get 0,1,2 all will be fine with a console, but
> without a console programs may be called without good stdout and stderr.
> If now mount or e2fsck or some other program opens a disk device, and
> later prints something it may be printed to your disk instead of screen.
>
> I don't know about mount, but e2fsck has had defensive coding to prevent
> exactly this problem since version 1.13.
It was fixed in mount in util-linux version 2.9.
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