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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > o files as directories > - O_DIRECTORY opens succeed on all files on reiser4. Besides breaking > .htaccess handling in apache and glibc compilation this also renders > this flag entirely useless and opens up the races it tries to > prevent against cmpletely useless Ouch. I would definitely classify this as a security hole, since userland definitely uses O_DIRECTORY to avoid races. Jeff - 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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