Re: spying (deleted) file entries in other users' directories

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:47:16 +0200, "D.C. van Moolenbroek" said:

> Note that on my system, reading doesn't work on /tmp ("input error: Invalid
> argument"); it seems to work on all other directories though. Generally I
> suppose it's a bad idea to put something sensitive in a filename, but what
> do the other bytes represent, that show up in the hexdump?

Presumably, they are the inode number - remember that a directory is just
a list of (name)(inode number) pairs (overlooking things like ReiserFS or
IBM's JFS2 that doen't store directories as a linear list but as a btree or
other structure - in those cases the other bytes may be directory metadata).
-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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