Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:03 PST, Chris Wright said:

> Hard links still point to same inode, what's the issue that this
> addresses?

For those systems that have everything on one big partition, you can often
do stuff like:

ln /etc/passwd /tmp/<filename_generated_by_mktemp>

and wait for /etc/passwd to get clobbered by a cron job run by root...

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