Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!phil@RICE.ARPA From: phil@RICE.ARPA (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: inode number -> pathname? (4.2BSD) Message-ID: <11610@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 19:35:15 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11610 Posted: Mon Jul 15 19:35:15 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 03:03:14 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 13 Many many people have now pointed out that chdir-ing directly to an inode circumvents the security of scanning a path. It hadn't occurred to me at the time, but that is quite correct. So, such a call would have to be limited to the super-user. I can see no other way around it. Oh, and by the way, even "find" on just one partition is very slow. It just doesn't cut it when you're in a hurry. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice Universityor, for the daring: