Re: Linux, too, sot of (Windows MS-DOS Device Name DoS vulnerabilities)

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Ishikawa wrote:

> The next is a showstopper.
> The problem URL that caused the hung of browser,
> at least, on my PC is the following.

>     file:///dev/pty0

However, the UNIX API has a very simple and *reliable* way around this:

        stat(2)

I hope Mozilla authors are listening and start stat'in file:/// urls.

There is no simple and reliable equivalent under 'doze.

--
David.