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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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To: Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@clueful.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 22:33:01 +0200
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Am Sonntag, 6. April 2003 22:08 schrieb Malcolm Beattie:
> Oliver Neukum writes:
> > If you have an fd, the permissions based on the path are already
> > bypassed, whether you can call flink or not, aren't they?
>
> Not if it's opened O_RDONLY, for example.

OK, so you could open a file RW even if the fd you get passed
is only RO, right?

	Regards
		Oliver