Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:15:24 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs and symlinks--2.3.48 |
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Richard Gooch wrote: > If a programme depends on the write bit of a symlink, it's broken. In > this case, you may say it doesn't matter, but it makes me think that > the programme is probably broken in other ways. If I leave devfs as it > is, it forces someone to look at the buggy programme, which increases > the chance that it will receive a mini-audit, something it is clearly > in need of.
"The door was open so by burgling their house and stealing their hi-fi it forces someone to close the door in future, something they clearly needed to do in the first place".
That's a good idea. Why don't we read 9 bits from /dev/urandom and store them in the ext2 symlink mode?
-- Jamie
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