On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:50:06PM +0000, Colin Whittaker mentioned:
> John P. Looney stated the following on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:36:20PM +0000 :
> > Anyone know off hand what file descriptor three is, for a program just
> > started off by inetd ?
>> 0 is STDIN
> 1 is STDOUT
> 2 is STDERR
> 3 must have been open by the application after it started, truss /
> ktrace etc might be your friend here.
It wasn't. The read(3,...) is the first thing in the code. Checkout the
source of checkpassword.c as shown here:
http://ahu.casema.net/qmail/top.html#checkpassword
Kate
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