Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261310AbVBGWme (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:42:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261318AbVBGWmd (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:42:33 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:62215 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261310AbVBGWlq (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:41:46 -0500 Message-Id: <200502072241.j17MfTfP027969@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Chris Wright Cc: Michael Halcrow , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton 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." <20050207142603.A469@build.pdx.osdl.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20050207192108.GA776@halcrow.us> <20050207193129.GB834@halcrow.us> <20050207142603.A469@build.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1107816087_22594P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:41:28 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 992 Lines: 33 --==_Exmh_1107816087_22594P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/ and wait for /etc/passwd to get clobbered by a cron job run by root... --==_Exmh_1107816087_22594P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFCB+6XcC3lWbTT17ARAv8pAJ9BJ53CZDrP7jPY/xrd58Trf79w3wCfWPDr D0agMzr+RXVJOzZegD6dzJQ= =qj7B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1107816087_22594P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/