Message-Id: <200502072241.j17MfTfP027969@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:03 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:03 PST, Chris Wright said:

> Hard links still point to same inode, what's the issue that this
> addresses?

For those systems that have everything on one big partition, you can often
do stuff like:

ln /etc/passwd /tmp/<filename_generated_by_mktemp>

and wait for /etc/passwd to get clobbered by a cron job run by root...

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