-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/07 22:19, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:17:28PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> 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. >> > Out of curiousity, why do you say that it is a bad design?
Destroying something to save it? - -- 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) iD8DBQFGBe2US9HxQb37XmcRAjSzAJ0RKQkjRDMlzsPpMFXZj9jFyi444gCg5MYq 9D8NRt2we29aFc1XTTkUJPY= =Cehu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]