On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:06:38PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > 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?
That's what I thought, but as far as I can follow the code this is not actually true.
