Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:34:22 +0100 |
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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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