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Steve Dodd <steved@loth.demon.co.uk> said:

[...]

> If you want to stop people accessing *inodes*, the appropriate permissions
> should be set for the inode. Permissions on directories AFAIK only control
> access to the contents of the directory - which are just (name, inum)
> pairs.

And I'm depending on that guarantee. "Open by inode" allows anybody go on a
hunting session on the disk for "interesting" inodes they shouldn't be able
to get at.
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Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616

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