...yes, they do exist, in /proc/self/fd/* . Unfortunately, their permissions are not actually checked during open, resulting in (obscure) security hole: if you have fd open for reading, you can reopen it for write, even through unix permissions would not allow that. Now... I'd like to close the hole. One way would be to actually check symlink permissions on open -- because those symlinks already have correct permissions. But ... then I got lost in vfs. Can someone help? Is there better way? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html