Re: open("foo", 3)

2005-08-20 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > My question is: is this deliberate or accidental? Wouldn't it be more > > logical to not require any permission to open such file? Or is there > > some security concern with that? >

Re: open("foo", 3)

2005-08-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > My question is: is this deliberate or accidental? Wouldn't it be more > logical to not require any permission to open such file? Or is there > some security concern with that? It's deliberate but historical. It's been a long time since I worked o