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Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on Linux


From: psz () maths usyd edu au
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:56:01 +1100

Marco Verschuur <marco () osp nl> wrote:

And due to the actual file permissions the read-only fd can easily  
changed to read-write.

How would you do that? Cannot use fcntl() as that would not let you.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia


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