From: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: O_NOLINK for open()
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:39:50 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070912163645.E5573@pkunk.americas.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E85528.3010405@zytor.com>
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Brent Casavant wrote:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=93032806224160&w=2
>
> This link talks about file flags handling. I don't see the relevance to
> this problem at all. However, this is a very long thread, so if there
> is anything specific that you want to point to, then please elucidate.
Oops, my mistake -- I pasted the wrong URL. I meant this thread, this
post in particular:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=88937224115435&w=2
Still, O_NOLINK would seem to be a valuable addition, and greatly
simplify secure temporary file creation.
Brent
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-12 20:37 Brent Casavant
2007-09-12 21:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-12 21:39 ` Brent Casavant [this message]
2007-09-12 21:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-12 21:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-09-12 22:44 ` Brent Casavant
2007-09-12 22:49 ` Al Viro
2007-09-12 23:27 ` Brent Casavant
2007-09-12 23:48 ` Brent Casavant
2007-09-14 16:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2007-09-13 10:08 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-09-13 16:05 ` Brent Casavant
[not found] <92Haf-7z7-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-09-12 22:33 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-09-13 9:13 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-14 9:07 ` Bodo Eggert
[not found] ` <92TO5-246-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <92Zqu-2ur-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-09-14 10:30 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-09-14 10:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-09-14 17:26 ` Bodo Eggert
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