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Date:      Sun, 07 Nov 1999 16:29:32 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Procfs' pointers to files.
Message-ID:  <38252A5C.2C388485@newsguy.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911061552120.846-100000@green.myip.org>

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Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> 
> It sounds to me that what you really want are the semantics of a
> symbolic link and not the semantics of a hard link.  Is it just me,
> or does it seem as if the pathname of the executable being stored as
> a virtual symlink in procfs as "file" would solve these security
> problems?

Mmmmm... I like that...

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org

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