Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Jamie Lokier
2004-08-26T16:12:41Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > There's bound to be some security issue, but I'm not sure what you're
> > getting at with /tmp. What sort of sort of security problem arises
> > with a world-writeable directory such as /tmp, that cannot arise with
> > the standard fs semantics?
>
> Actually you are right on that issue because it would open the
> device/fifo as directory and not device/fifo (in fact I'd had to look at
> the code again to see whether they actually do this only for files or
> also for special files)

Are you saying that with reiser4, you can open a device or fifo with
O_DIRECTORY?

-- Jamie