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From: richard@locus.com (Richard M. Mathews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem
Message-ID: <richard.666327753@fafnir.la.locus.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 03:02:33 GMT
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dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>>Nah. flink() would only work if you have the file open for writing.
>Well, writing but not O_APPEND.

I don't think an O_APPEND check would be necessary.  Since fcntl() can
be used to change the O_APPEND flag, anything which depends on it for
security would already be broken (unless you have a system which has
O_APPEND but doesn't have fcntl(F_SETFL)).

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