Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink

Arjan van de Ven (arjan@fenrus.demon.nl)
07 Apr 2003 19:11:37 +0200


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On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 18:50, Clayton Weaver wrote:

> The cases with potential security implications are all in the context of =
flink()ing to an open fd for an inode that still corresponds to at least on=
e directory entry.

almost.
there is of course always the case of a setuid app doing a userspace ACL
like thing and only sending fd's to non-privileged apps based on some
security scheme..... flink() would sort of break this thing entirely

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