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On 6/15/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > [Albert Cahalan] > > It's really not worth getting bothered by. Truth is, big > > giant > > pathnames break lots of stuff already, both kernel and > > userspace. > > > Just look in /proc for some nice juicy kernel breakage: > > cwd, exe, fd/*, maps, mounts, mountstats, root, smaps > > Well, but we should be fixing that, not adding more. And /proc is > info-only, while this is security related code. Security tools read from /proc, so /proc is security-related. The limit imposed by TOMOYO (or AppArmor) is fine, despite being security-related. It just needs to fail in the safe direction: access denied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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