Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 16:23, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:14, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Stefan Seyfried <seife@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >>> any good daemon closes stdout, stderr, stdin
> >>
> >> A real good daemon would redirect them to /dev/null.
> >
> > Yeah, yeah, let's first close stderr, and then proceed and
> > add some code to handle command line --log=file, and to do
> > logging to that file.
> >
> > Why good ol' fprintf(stderr,...) isn't enough? Why do you
> > want to complicate things?
> >
> > What's so hard in doing "daemon 2>/dev/null &" if you don't
> > want to save log?
> > --
> > vda
> 
> The daemon needs to have the standard input closed as well as
> any I/O connection to a possible terminal. Just closing
> standard input, allows a dup() in rogue code to recreate it.
> Basically, file-descriptors 0, 1, and 2, need to be USED and
> used for something else (like open /dev/null or open "/").
> That's how you prevent rogue code, inserted via overflow or
> other means, from obtaining control of your system.

... and everything described above is perfectly doable by
shell mechanisms (like redirections) prior to strting daemon, right?
--
vda
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