Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:35:51 -0800 | From | Stephen Satchell <> | Subject | Re: Yet another design for /proc. Or actually /kernel. |
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At 12:58 PM 11/7/01 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >Actually, /proc/mounts is currently broken, and is an excellent >example of why the above statement simply isn't true unless you apply >another level of indirection: try mounting something on a directory >the name of which contains whitespace in any form (remember, depending >on your setup this may be doable by an unprivileged user...)
Good man.
Now you know why I insisted that ALL STRINGS have a standard escape system in my less-than-strawman proposal.
You'll find other places in /proc where white space is not necessarily a delimiter. (Too lazy to go find them right now, however.)
Satch
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