Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:33:41 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for an idea Message-ID: <199611272333.RAA18181@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199611271305.AA071569903@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> References: <329B547F.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
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In article <199611271305.AA071569903@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>, Hr.Ladavac <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> wrote: >E-mail message from Julian Elischer contained: >> 1/ the are themselves >> 2/ they are root (game over) > 3) they made a hard link, opened that, and sent you the > file descriptor. Um, modes are stored in the file not the link. You can't link to a file and open it... if you could, well, bye bye security.
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