On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Chris Evans wrote:
> 2) The impact of allowing arbitrary users to call revoke() on files they
> own is unassessed, making it very very dangerous. root-owned processes
> often deal with users' files, and may not be prepared to deal with a file
> descriptor disappearing from under them. Hence I suggest limiting this
> call to block devices/char devices.
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