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    SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2
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    Ar Iau, 2006-07-27 am 20:06 +0200, ysgrifennodd Petr Baudis:
    > Well, except that you can revoke the log file before the shadow file is
    > opened, at which point open() probably reuses the fd and the program
    > conveniently logs to /etc/shadow.

    revoke() kills *access* by that handle, it does not kill the fd. The BSD
    designers thought of that one. Instead you end up with a handle that
    reports -ENXIO (from memory) for I/O accesses, ioctl etc until you close
    it when it goes away as expected.

    Alan

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