Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:20:37 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Idea: flink() and anon_open() |
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Hi!
> I'd like to suggest two new system calls. They are logical extensions > of the existing filesystem features, and they make it possible to do > all sorts of interesting things. I particularly want them because I'm > writing a program that will be used to install system-critical files > (libc), and there are some race conditions that they would > eliminate.
Hmm. I believe they are not needed. Just create directory /safetmp, with perms 700 owned by root and play with it. This way, noone can explore races. Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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