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    SubjectRe: symlinks with permissions
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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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