Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 06:28:36 EST

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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> This could be hacked around ofcourse in fs/namei.c, so I tried
> it for fun. And indeed, with a minor correction it works:
>
> % perl flink.pl
> Success.
>
> I now have a flink-test2.txt file. That is pretty cool ;)

It's also a security hole.

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