Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net> said:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
[...]
> >I wouldn't want to have to set permissions on my files by editing a file,
> >which can (and Murphy assures us, _will_) get lost or corrupted. And reset
> >it to what, by whom? What if the machine is running low on space, so the
> >chown/chmod can't run (or is plain overloaded, so it runs slowly), and some
> >attacker has a field day with leftover default permissions?
> That is a problem that will forever exist in userspace. I always try to
> avoid making kernel internals dependant on userspace crap -- it's a mess
> in progress. (unavoidable in some cases, tho')
It is the fundamental mind-body relationship problem, yet again ;-)
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