Re: OSS www.opensound.com

["Leonardo Constantino C. da R. e Oliveira" <leo () CIPHER COM BR>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Martin Macok wrote:

> > [400f8c34] read(255, "\n$MODTOOLS/insmod -V > /tmp/oss."..., 8176) = 8176
>
> I think "insmod -V > something" just writes stdout (insmod -V) to file
> "something" and doesn't load anything under any circumstances.
>
> (That doesn't mean that it's OK. Someone must validate if it writes to
> a file in /tmp the proper way(tm) ... i.e. if there are sanity checks,
> if it doesn't follow symlinks, work with right privilegies... etc.)

  A more elegant solution would be:

  FILE *insmod_ouput = popen("$MODTOOLS/insmod -V", 'r');
  /*...*/
  pclose(insmod_output);

  and it's posix.

-- Leo