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In article <199611271305.AA071569903@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>,
Hr.Ladavac <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> wrote:
>E-mail message from Julian Elischer contained:
>> 1/ the are themselves

>> 2/ they are root (game over)

>	3) they made a hard link, opened that, and sent you the 
>	   file descriptor.

Um, modes are stored in the file not the link. You can't link to a file
and open it... if you could, well, bye bye security.