lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Aug]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > There's bound to be some security issue, but I'm not sure what you're
> > getting at with /tmp. What sort of sort of security problem arises
> > with a world-writeable directory such as /tmp, that cannot arise with
> > the standard fs semantics?
>
> Actually you are right on that issue because it would open the
> device/fifo as directory and not device/fifo (in fact I'd had to look at
> the code again to see whether they actually do this only for files or
> also for special files)

Are you saying that with reiser4, you can open a device or fifo with
O_DIRECTORY?

-- Jamie
-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:05    [W:0.463 / U:0.144 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site