Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Pathnames in /proc | Date | 25 Jun 1998 19:09:06 GMT |
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Followup to: <199806250741.DAA21300@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > There is no need to "fix" /proc/mounts, since untrusted users > can't supply the data. Trusted users must be trusted to not > abuse the file format. > > The /proc/#/foo files could be a real problem. >
Not necessarily true (think of an automounter using volume labels.) Either way, it should be bloody legal for root to have a weird mountpoint without breaking the universe! This is one of the reasons why I can't use /proc/mounts to solve some nasty autofs problems!
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