"Brent W. Baccala" writes:
> I see that. It seems to still have that problem. I created a directory
> /root/baitdir, and put in it a file named 'bait'. As a non-privileged
> user, I created a firmlink in /tmp to /root/baitdir and rebooted. Voila!
> 'bait' vanished.
We recently discussed it a
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Richard Braun wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:44PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> > I haven't been able to find any other places on my system where find uses
> > -xdev; just bootclean.sh, but my search has not been exhaustive.
> >
> > Obviously there's bee
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:44PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> I haven't been able to find any other places on my system where find uses
> -xdev; just bootclean.sh, but my search has not been exhaustive.
>
> Obviously there's been a long history behind this problem, and I'm new on
> the scene
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Richard Braun wrote:
> This was famously shown with the example of the
> firmlink translator used in /tmp, which would cause the removal of
> any file targeted by the firmlink on /tmp cleanup during system
> startup.
>
I see that. It seems to still have that pro