Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)
From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 17:45:57 EST
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:03 PST, Chris Wright said:
> Hard links still point to same inode, what's the issue that this
> addresses?
For those systems that have everything on one big partition, you can often
do stuff like:
ln /etc/passwd /tmp/<filename_generated_by_mktemp>
and wait for /etc/passwd to get clobbered by a cron job run by root...
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