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Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on
- To: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on
- From: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:56:51 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:53:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > The link count of a files tells you the number of hard links that
> > are persisted within the same filesystem. It is _NOT_ a promise
> > that there are no other means to access the inode of the file.
>
> It used to be promise before /proc was mounted.
"mount --bind" behaves like a hard link and it does not increment the link
count.
Gabor
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