Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 17:20:17 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@interpath.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: ulf@lamb.net (Ulf Zimmermann), jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960814212017.0074c684@interpath.com>
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At 11:45 AM 8/14/96 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: >> I would go more into the direction of checking if the dump device is a >> mounted file system. Easy check. > >I tend to agree, but wonder if it would not make more sense to tackle this >from a different angle. > >Consider all the programs that could clobber a mounted file system. Would >it make more sense if we somehow protected a mounted disk device from >being clobbered? Isn't this one of the things that secure_level > 0 protects you from? In fact, yes it is. (reference: page 263, 4.4BSD daemon book). >OTOH, this is a can of worms, no matter how you do it. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@interpath.com XCOMM "Corrected!" -- Old Amiga tips file \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of Retrocomputing: / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com
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