Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 29 Nov 1997 20:35:46 +0100 (CET) | | From | Felix Schroeter <> | | Subject | Re: VFS |
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Hello!
In article <19971117095052.61279@zaphod.uni-koblenz.de> you write: >[...]
> - There is also a patch floating around that enables the kernel to > open files by inode number. This in conjunction with a modified INN > delivers significant speedups as the INN spends a large fraction of > it's time searching files. You may call it a broken fix for a broken > system though ...
Sounds like a security hole (except if restricted to root, but innd doesn't usually run as root).
Regards, Felix.
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