Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: symlinks with permissions | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:57:49 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:46 +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > That's what I'd think as well but it does not as I've just learned and > tested :) proc_pid_follow_link actually directly gives a dentry of the > target file without checking permissions on the way. > > Honza
I seem to remember that is deliberate, the point being that a symlink in /proc/*/fd/ may contain a path that refers to a private namespace.
Cheers Trond
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