Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg () sztaki hu>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:15:31PM +1100, psz () maths usyd edu au wrote:
> > Irrelevant. The statement was ...
>
> Sorry, you misunderstood, that was not the statement.

Here is the statement I replied to:

> > 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 used to be promise before /proc was mounted

I do not really care about the other arguments in the thread.

Gabor

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