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    SubjectRe: Program-invoking Symbolic Links?
    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?
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