Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: BSD system call revoke? | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:53:56 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The revoke() patch is small, which suggests that if we get a serious > kernel guru to help us (hint hint Alan the security bod), we could be > looking at revoke() in kernel 2.4 with little effort. > > As you have said, revoke() is a very useful security tool. RedHat6.0 > out-of-the-box suffers from the lack of it.
I would suggest you feed it to Al Viro, as it and also large file arrays (expanding the fd arrays on an SMP box is kinda fun 8)) are very much related to his vfs threading work and file handle locking.
Alan
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