2015-08-28 23:36 GMT+02:00 Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>: > Silly question from the peanut gallery: is there any such thing as > opening an fd pointing at a file such that the "open file description" > (i.e. the struct file) captures the right to delete the file? > > IOW do we need FMODE_DELETE_SELF?
When would that permission be checked, what syscall would you use to unlink an open file descriptor? Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
