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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors
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According to Horst von Brand:
> > I now have a flink-test2.txt file. That is pretty cool ;)
> 
> This is a possible security risk: The unlinking program thinks the file is
> forever inaccessible, but it isn't...

Why. If you keep an fd open to it it's accessible anyway, and if
you like you can copy it to a new file. Or you could link(2) it
beforehand, etc etc

Mike.
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