Re: [RFC] Subtle race in dup2() and permissions on /proc/<pid>/fd/<n>

Peter Benie (pjb1008@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:44:46 +0100

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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.

Peter

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