smbd not erroring out when it is supposed to

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Robb,

> I have the following trace output from...
> strace /bin/smbd -D -d 9
> 
> open(0x2ab23be0, 0, 0x7eb428)       = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory))
> open(0x2ab23be0, 0, 0)                   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory))
> geteuid()                                         = 0
> ioctl(0x7fffffff, 0x540d, 0x7fbf5690)  = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
> (errno)
> write(0x4, 0x7eb3e0, 0x31)              = 49
> geteuid()                                          = 0
> ioctl(0x7fffffff, 0x540d, 0x7fbf5360)   = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
> (errno)
> write(0x4, 0x7eb3e0, 0x15)              = 21
> 
> It seems to me that the program should error out 
> and quit right away when it cant open the file but it
> looks as though instead it passes the negative
> file descriptor to other syscalls like ioctl. Should it 
> be doing this? Is this a bug?

What file is smbd trying to open?  There's not enough
context here to provide any feedback.




cheers, jerry
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