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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:08:41 +0200
From: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
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Subject: Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:44:31PM +0100, you [Andreas Ferber] claimed:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:02:55PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
> > 
> > Just out of interest (I'm not actually suggesting this would be useful, or
> > feasible): what about ilink(dev, inode_nr, "path") or iopen(dev, inode_nr)?
> > 
> > Or /proc/inodes/dev/<nr> ?
> 
> ...which would successfully defeat any access control scheme based on
> directory permissions...

Yeah - it could be root-only.

But it's propably not useful anyway.


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