Re: Is 'transname' still alive ?

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:55:44 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> It made the 2.1.44 kernel horribly bad. It used to provide
> the POSIX-prohibited ability to do rmdir(".") safely.

"Safely" is not the word I'd use for something that allowed to
subvert sticky bit on directories, to start with...

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