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Subject: Re: [RFC] "Text file busy" when overwriting libraries
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:44:58 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
        torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
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> We already can open an exec only file just open("file", 0).

Wrong.

> In fact it looks like you can open a file with no permissions at all.
> You just can't do anything with it.

This isnt true. Read the code.

Alan
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