Bug#369964: ssh: fails to run as daemon if /dev/null is a regular file (daemon() failed: Success)

[Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>]

On 02/06/06 12:39, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:09:05PM -0300, Salvador E. Tropea wrote:
>  
>
> > Package: ssh
> > Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4
> > Severity: grave
> >    
>
> This is severity inflation; I've downgraded it. (It's only unusable on
> very broken systems.)
>  

Ok.

> > The sshd daemon fails to start if /dev/null is a regular file.
> > You can start sshd in debug mode (sshd -d) but when you try to start it 
> > normally it fails to go to background.
> > The program logs the following error:
> >
> > daemon() failed: Success
> >    
>
> The poor error reporting is largely the fault of the C library. See the
> daemon(3) man page.
>  

Are you sure? I din't check the code, but looks like poor error checking 
in the code.
Do you mean that libc is opening /dev/null by itself?

Regards, SET