Re: [Patch] TIOCCONS security

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:03:41 PDT, Kees Cook said:

> Confirmed.  If you run the following code as a regular user, you can see
> messages.  (BTW: don't do a "tail -f /dev/console".  For reasons I don't
> understand, it writes endless CRs to which ever tty you happen to have
> open):

It's probably a bananana problem.  The tail -f writes something, which ends in
a \n.  Then the tail -f reads the last thing written, which was a \n, and
writes it out, and.....

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