On Wed 2009-11-04 09:06:25, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:17:13AM +1100, psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > But, mount requires root (and root can do anything, including shooting > > himself in the foot). > > Irrelevant. The statement was that if /proc is not mounted, then the > link count tells if there are other ways to access the inode besides the > path you have used to access it. I showed you that this statement is > false. You showed almost nothing. If you assume root interference, he can do anything, including overwriting kernel with another one. OTOH /proc is mounted by default... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
