Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein):
>>What if flink() were permitted only on file descriptors open for
>>O_RDWR without O_APPEND?
>
>Except now you can come back later, say a week later, and re-open the
>file (assuming the file protexns were ok), without the setuid program.

Well, okay.

Idea #2: Allow flink() only if you are the owner of the file or the
superuser.
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Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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