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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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