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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 06:28:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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Subject: Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
 
> This could be hacked around ofcourse in fs/namei.c, so I tried
> it for fun. And indeed, with a minor correction it works:
> 
> % perl flink.pl 
> Success.
> 
> I now have a flink-test2.txt file. That is pretty cool ;)

It's also a security hole.

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