On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Pavel Kankovsky wrote: > pavel might have detected this attack if he checked the number of > hardlinks on "unwritable_file" between the chmod's. But he did not > check that. I stand corrected. He did it--in a comment: > # check link count on unwritable_file. We would not want someone > # to have a hard link to work around our permissions, would we? -- Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak / Jeremiah 9:21 \ "For death is come up into our MS Windows(tm)..." \ 21st century edition /