Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink

Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-07T17:00:36Z

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On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 18:50, Clayton Weaver wrote:

> The cases with potential security implications are all in the context of flink()ing to an open fd for an inode that still corresponds to at least one directory entry.

almost.
there is of course always the case of a setuid app doing a userspace ACL
like thing and only sending fd's to non-privileged apps based on some
security scheme..... flink() would sort of break this thing entirely

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