From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink
Date: 11 Apr 2003 01:02:30 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b75476$ho0$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030410221040.3631.qmail@email.com
Clayton Weaver wrote:
>One other thing: why O_CANLINK (suggested flag
>to open) instead of O_NOLINK?
Because O_CANLINK fails secure; O_NOLINK fails open.
When security is on the line, you really want a fail-safe solution.
And the failure mode of forgetting to specify an O_NOLINK flag
where it should have been specified is going to be a common one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-11 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 22:10 [PATCH] new syscall: flink Clayton Weaver
2003-04-11 1:02 ` David Wagner [this message]
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2003-04-11 17:11 Clayton Weaver
2003-04-10 0:31 Clayton Weaver
2003-04-08 13:06 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-07 23:57 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-07 16:50 Clayton Weaver
2003-04-07 17:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-07 17:37 ` David Wagner
2003-04-07 18:43 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-08 5:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-07 20:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 9:01 Clayton Weaver
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2003-04-07 7:35 ` Vitaly
2003-04-07 14:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 18:47 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-04-07 20:05 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2003-04-07 20:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 2:56 Mark Grosberg
2003-04-07 3:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 7:29 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-04-07 8:18 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-04-07 8:35 ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-04-07 9:11 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-04-07 11:13 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-07 12:31 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 12:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-07 13:19 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 20:55 ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-04-07 21:43 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-07 22:17 ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-04-07 22:25 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-07 22:55 ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-04-06 19:05 Dan Kegel
2003-04-06 19:07 ` Dan Kegel
2003-04-06 19:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-06 20:08 ` Malcolm Beattie
2003-04-06 20:33 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-06 21:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-07 2:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 2:29 ` David Wagner
2003-04-07 9:09 ` Malcolm Beattie
2003-04-07 11:02 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-04-07 5:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 6:43 ` David Wagner
2003-04-07 6:21 ` Vitaly
2003-04-07 16:17 ` Shaya Potter
2003-04-06 18:39 Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-07 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-07 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-08 0:23 ` Ulrich Drepper
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