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Date:      Tue, 09 Apr 2002 02:01:27 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Jakub Dawidek" <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hardlinks...
Message-ID:  <3CB2ADE7.29BF8FD7@mindspring.com>
References:  <Your message of "Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:37:38 PDT." <20020408113423.Y81506-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20020409094051.00c475e0@gid.co.uk>

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Bob Bishop wrote:
> If you have any permissions on the file, you can prolong its life without a
> link simply by having a process open it. This is 'better' as a DOS because
> it's harder to spot.

Plus you can start a bunch of processes, dup the thing, an then
pass it around amoung the processes so that they *all* have a
reference, and it's difficult to impossible to kill them all...


Of course, the most expedient fix is "don't give these idiots
accounts on your machine".

8^p.

-- Terry

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