Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors

[Alexander Viro]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
 
> This could be hacked around ofcourse in fs/namei.c, so I tried
> it for fun. And indeed, with a minor correction it works:
> 
> % perl flink.pl 
> Success.
> 
> I now have a flink-test2.txt file. That is pretty cool ;)

It's also a security hole.