> Alexander Viro writes ("[RFC] Subtle race in dup2() and permissions on /proc/<pid>/fd/<n>"):
> >
> > 3. Why on the earth are we playing with permissions on
> > /proc/<pid>/fd/<n> *symlinks*? Is there anybody objecting to making those
> > beasts rwxrwxrwx as any other symlink?
>
> Yes. They look like symlinks, but the behaviour is closer to that of
> hard links, and the permissions do mean something. Keep them as they are.
*Only* if you are doing lstat() on them. Everything else doesn't care.
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