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SubjectRe: [PATCH] new syscall: flink
Previously H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> b) This is a security hole, in which case /proc needs to be fixed. In
> particular, the open("/proc/self/fd/3", O_RDWR) in my example above
> should return EPERM.

proc might not be a problem if you deal with a chroot or namespace which
doesn't have proc mounted and no processes running with mount
capabilities. flink could still be a problem in those situations.

Wichert.

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