-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/07 21:46, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 09:31:58PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Ah, you're deleting an open file! >> >> The app, then, that deletes an open file is poorly written. >> > On the contrary. It makes it so that the only way that someone can get > to the file is by having cracked the kernel itself. That is, without > the file descriptor, no other process can get to the data. For example, > qemu does this. Lots of other programs do this as well for security. > They open the file, immediately unlink it and then the only access is > via the file descriptor.
That reminds me of the Vietnam War philosophy "we had to destroy the village in order to save the village". It was bad "design" 40 years ago, it's a bad design now. > > Regards, > > -Roberto > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGBenIS9HxQb37XmcRAncqAJwMuz/P4ZZEBKBO2Uy6XqLs4UgBEACePYxU bDcbgJnOEIXbOImgWomx52s= =dzax -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
