Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2001 22:02 schrieb Jacek Pliszka:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > What is wrong with this naive method?
> >
> > You are screwed as soon as somebody presses reset. This may even be
> > exploitable.
>
> If someone can press reset on your machine - there are hundreds
> way in which you are screwed.

Then substitute generic power failure.

> You may create:
> /dev/tmpdevices/
>
> and purge them on the boot.

And lose the ability to make permanent changes. Besides it won't lead us 
anywhere if we start a design with a workaround. For example, the naive 
approach has race conditions.

        Regards
                Oliver

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