Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:55:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Is 'transname' still alive ? |
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> It made the 2.1.44 kernel horribly bad. It used to provide > the POSIX-prohibited ability to do rmdir(".") safely.
"Safely" is not the word I'd use for something that allowed to subvert sticky bit on directories, to start with...
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