> I'd like to suggest two new system calls. They are logical extensions
> of the existing filesystem features, and they make it possible to do
> all sorts of interesting things. I particularly want them because I'm
> writing a program that will be used to install system-critical files
> (libc), and there are some race conditions that they would
> eliminate.
Hmm. I believe they are not needed. Just create directory /safetmp,
with perms 700 owned by root and play with it. This way, noone can
explore races.
Pavel
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