From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 9 2: 2:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8DD37B41C; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 02:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0072.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.72] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16urVj-0004gb-00; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 02:01:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB2ADE7.29BF8FD7@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 02:01:27 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Bishop Cc: Michael Smith , Doug White , "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Jakub Dawidek" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardlinks... References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020409094051.00c475e0@gid.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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