Re: /dev/fd/N not synonymous with file descriptor N; it is on Linux

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jan 22 10:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 22 09:50, Houder wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 21:19:50, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> > > > Also see:
> > > >
> > > >     https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-12/msg00028.html
> > > >     ( Bash heredoc on FD 3 )
> > > >
> > > > Based on the output of strace on Linux, I composed an STC, that duplicates
> > > > the steps taken by bash (and cat).
> > > 
> > > This should work in the latest developer snapshot uploaded to
> > > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/  Please give it a try.
> > 
> > This solves: <program> -i /dev/fd/N N<<EOF (i.e. Steven Penny's problem)
> > 
> > Howver ...
> > (and I sure that I am not telling you anything new)
> > [...]
> > 64-@@ rm aap.txt # hacker removing the logfile
> > 
> > 64-@@ stat -L /proc/4120/fd/3
> >   File: /proc/4120/fd/3
> >   Size: 4               Blocks: 1          IO Block: 65536  regular file
> > Device: 33d91880h/869865600d    Inode: 35747322042382612  Links: 0
> > Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/   Henri)   Gid: (  513/    None)
> > Access: 2019-01-22 09:24:41.978178200 +0100
> > Modify: 2019-01-22 09:24:41.978178200 +0100
> > Change: 2019-01-22 09:26:25.021040800 +0100
> >  Birth: 2019-01-22 09:24:41.978178200 +0100
> > 
> > 64-@@ cp /proc/4120/fd/3 noot.txt # logfile rescue
> > 64-@@ cat noot.txt # empty! (however, this works on Linux)
> > 64-@@ cat /proc/4120/fd/3 # indeed, does not show contents
> > 64-@@
> 
> Yes, this does not work under older systems.  However, it works as
> desired at least with Windows 10 1709 due to changes in the OS in
> terms of handling of deleted files.
> 
> I tested this with W8.1, W10 1709 and W10 1809.  It fails on 8.1

... as expected ...

> but works fine on both W10 versions.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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