Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 04:47:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Subtle race in dup2() and permissions on /proc/<pid>/fd/<n> |
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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Peter Benie wrote:
> Alexander Viro writes ("[RFC] Subtle race in dup2() and permissions on /proc/<pid>/fd/<n>"): > > > > 3. Why on the earth are we playing with permissions on > > /proc/<pid>/fd/<n> *symlinks*? Is there anybody objecting to making those > > beasts rwxrwxrwx as any other symlink? > > Yes. They look like symlinks, but the behaviour is closer to that of > hard links, and the permissions do mean something. Keep them as they are.
*Only* if you are doing lstat() on them. Everything else doesn't care.
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