Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:53:42 +0100 | From | Miquel van Smoorenburg <> | Subject | Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors |
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According to Horst von Brand: > > I now have a flink-test2.txt file. That is pretty cool ;) > > This is a possible security risk: The unlinking program thinks the file is > forever inaccessible, but it isn't...
Why. If you keep an fd open to it it's accessible anyway, and if you like you can copy it to a new file. Or you could link(2) it beforehand, etc etc
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