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SubjectRe: RFC: BSD system call revoke?
Should a user be able to revoke a file descriptor opened by a root
processes in the first place?
-Rob H.

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Chris Evans wrote:

> 2) The impact of allowing arbitrary users to call revoke() on files they
> own is unassessed, making it very very dangerous. root-owned processes
> often deal with users' files, and may not be prepared to deal with a file
> descriptor disappearing from under them. Hence I suggest limiting this
> call to block devices/char devices.


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