To the question whether we should care about being able to write files at all:
I am not sure whether the following access checks are done by the file system 
layer, but what is with files in /dev/, named pipes and Unix Domain Sockets? 
Also for lockfiles, that may be removed by other users, writing file would make 
sense.

Regards

Johannes Nicolai

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Gesendet: Do 22.06.2006 20:23
An: Nicolas Williams
Cc: Jonathan Adams; Nicolai Johannes; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [zfs-discuss] Proposal for new basic privileges related 
with filesystem access checks 
 

>Thinking about PID re-use, yes, but I'm not trying to design the
>specific details -- I think a set of items to cache that provides strong
>security guarantees can be found.  The interface would remain
>unpredictable in other ways, but that seems like a small price to pay
>considering the use cases.

I think that this "cache design" really points to deficiencies in
the underlying architecture. If you have to add workarounds for
certain parts of the behaviour, you generally do better reconsidering
the initial design.  And to question whether we actually care about
being able to write files at all.

Casper

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