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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.databases
Subject: Re: getcwd() and friends.
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Date: 5 Apr 89 18:05:21 GMT
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In article <FLEE.89Apr4223010@shire.cs.psu.edu> flee@shire.cs.psu.edu
(Felix Lee) writes:
>You need another open() mode, O_EXEC, open for execution.  Then you
>could fchdir(), fexecve(), and so forth. ... [but]
>flink(), funlink(), and frename() [would remain] problematical ...

Actually, flink would be no problem even now.  (fsymlink, on the other
hand, has the same problem as funlink and frename.)
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