Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors

From: Andreas Ferber (aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 15:44:31 EST

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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...

Andreas

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