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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > In the general vein of avoiding security holes by using file > descriptors when doing repeated operations on the same filesystem > object, I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be a way to set > mtime using a file descriptor. Do we need a futimes() syscall? Parallel to that, there is the long time needed lutimes() syscall. Who has never been annoyed that restoring a backup there's no way to restore former symlink mtime? -- Abramo Bagnara mailto:abramo.bagnara@libero.it Opera Unica Phone: +39.546.656023 Via Emilia Interna, 140 48014 Castel Bolognese (RA) - Italy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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