Is there an FSDB Manual?

[seth.zirin]

In article <1221 at virtech.UUCP> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>There are zillions of other things you could do (both good and bad) to
>the file system with fsdb so be careful out there.

Fsdb can be used to make files "private" and prevent viewing of the contents
by most others.  Simply change one of the characters of the basename to
a slash "/" by editing the directory entry for the file.  Most versions
of namei() will then not be capable of returning the inode.

When you want to access your private file, perhaps to update your resume,
you simply convert the slash back to something else.

Of course, anyone that can figure out how to use fsdb can easily read your
private file without ever touching the directory entry...

Remember kids, don't do this at home.

seth.zirin at att.com