Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 07 Apr 2003 19:11:37 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 18:50, Clayton Weaver wrote:
> The cases with potential security implications are all in the context of flink()ing to an open fd for an inode that still corresponds to at least one directory entry.
almost. there is of course always the case of a setuid app doing a userspace ACL like thing and only sending fd's to non-privileged apps based on some security scheme..... flink() would sort of break this thing entirely [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ![\](/images/icornerr.gif) |