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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>,
        Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:26:26 -0500
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On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:32 am, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

> > This is a possible security risk: The unlinking program thinks the file
> > is forever inaccessible, but it isn't...
>
> 	Will the ability to access this linked file still be there  across
> 	a reboot ?  Or an fsck ?  Tia ,  JimL

Actually deleting files with a link count of zero is one of the things fsck 
is for, I believe...

Rob
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