On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Seth Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > - pollen uses os.Create() to open the /dev/urandom may create a regular > file if /dev/urandom doesn't exist for whatever reason -- it'd be worth > checking the opened file to ensure it isn't a regular file. Either a > check for specific major/minors of character devices or just a check for > "not a regular file" would work; the first would be least surprising, > the second may allow something clever.
Hmm, okay. That seems unlikely, but I think we can guard against this. I decided to tackle this from a different directly, though. I've solved this in the upstart script that runs pollen, by testing that $DEVICE is in fact a character device. This involved a couple of other changes (which are useful/necessary), including making the DEVICE itself an argument to the pollen server itself. Committed revision 171. As a side note, the Pollen argv handling could be more robust. For now, it's documented in the manpage that all of these arguments are required. :-Dustin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246098 Title: MIR: pollinate To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pollen/+bug/1246098/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
