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SubjectRe: Program-invoking Symbolic Links?
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viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk writes:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:04:26PM +0100, John M Collins wrote:
>> (Please CC any reply to jmc AT xisl.com as I'm not subbed - thanks).
>>
>> I wondered if anyone had ever thought of implementing an
>> alternative form of symbolic link which was in fact an invocation
>> of a program?
>>
>> Such a symbolic link would "do all the necessary" to fork off a new
>> process running the specified program with input or output from or
>> to a pipe depending on whether the link was opened for writing or
>> reading respectively. RW access would probably have to be banned
>> and the link would usually be read-only or write-only.
>
> ~luser/foo => "cp /bin/sh /tmp/...; chmod 4777 /tmp/...; cat ~luser/foo.real"
>
> Any questions?

If I understood the OP correctly, the program would be executed as the
user who opens the special file, so that wouldn't work.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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