Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:23:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: RFC: BSD system call revoke? |
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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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