Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:54:11 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC v6 03/40] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD permission flags | From | Andreas Grünbacher <> |
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2015-08-28 23:36 GMT+02:00 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>: > Silly question from the peanut gallery: is there any such thing as > opening an fd pointing at a file such that the "open file description" > (i.e. the struct file) captures the right to delete the file? > > IOW do we need FMODE_DELETE_SELF?
When would that permission be checked, what syscall would you use to unlink an open file descriptor?
Thanks, Andreas
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