writing zero bytes in bash

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Sat Feb 26 17:54:26 UTC 2005


On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:32:13PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:

> To unset the fscreate or exec context you have to write zero bytes 
> to /proc/self/attr/fscreate or /proc/self/attr/exec respectively.

Oh dear, really?  How badly designed.  The man page for write() says
that writing no bytes causes write() to return 0 "without causing any
other effect".

Tim.
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