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

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:20:36 PST, Chris Wright said:
> * 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 ;-)

Well.. Yeah.  bash gets it right, a lot of programs botch it. ;)

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