> I remember the setuid mkdir doing something along the lines of:
>
> touch $1
> chmod 40755 $1
> ln $1 $1/.
> ln . $1/..
>
> I remember that after a system crash we ended up with lots of junk in
> lost+found. Some of the FILEs there looked quite similar to what you'd
> see if you would use cat on a directory. So we chmod-ed them into a
> directory, and fsck-ed again. Bingo! a whole bunch of files back...
>
> Yes, those were the days....
>
> But what the F... is all this doing on linux-kernel?
Reminds me that I still have a few pieces of code on disk which are
using Version 7's mpx(2) and related facilities. Anybody kernel
patches for mpx support around ;-)
Ralf
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