Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > There's bound to be some security issue, but I'm not sure what you're > > getting at with /tmp. What sort of sort of security problem arises > > with a world-writeable directory such as /tmp, that cannot arise with > > the standard fs semantics? > > Actually you are right on that issue because it would open the > device/fifo as directory and not device/fifo (in fact I'd had to look at > the code again to see whether they actually do this only for files or > also for special files)
Are you saying that with reiser4, you can open a device or fifo with O_DIRECTORY? -- Jamie
