Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

[Chris Wright]

* Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx (Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx) wrote:
> open("/tmp/sh-thd-1107848098", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 3

O_EXCL

> Wow - if my /tmp was on the same partition, and I'd hard-linked that
> file to /etc/passwd, it would be toast now if root had run it.

So, in fact, it wouldn't ;-)

thanks,
-chris
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