Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:38:25 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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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
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