Gabor Gombas wrote:
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:53:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
The link count of a files tells you the number of hard links that
are persisted within the same filesystem. It is _NOT_ a promise
that there are no other means to access the inode of the file.
It
Jim Paris wrote:
Therefor it's totally of no influence what you do with the original
directory permission. File access has nothing to do with directory
permissions...!
Right. However the whole point of this discussion is that that is a
non-obvious point, there was no other way that
Pavel Machek wrote:
IMHO; no bug or security issue, just a misunderstanding of the
mechanism...
Correct. It is a completely flawed assumption.
In Unix, an open() of a file checks access permissions as
specified in the files inode. If someone wants access control
applied to a file, then
