From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2004-10-22T23:12:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it possible to open file by inode on Linux?

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:08:38 +0900, MiG <mig@1984.cz> wrote:
> Is it possible to open file if I know it's inode (on Linux)?

This is not possible on systems that has Unix semantics for file
permissions, because that would violate the security model. 
Directories that prevent access to files below them are not supposed
to be possible to circumvent by guessing inode numbers.

The documents David Ross points at are for the kernel layer.

Eivind.
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