Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:30:08 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [d_path 0/7] Fixes to d_path: Respin |
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> As far as I can see, glibc internally looks at /proc/mounts (or else mtab) to > find out where tmpfs is mounted for opening files there, and to look up > filesystem information for statfs(), while accessing that path, too. Fstatfs() > also looks into the same files, but it only matches by filesystem type, so this > is only a very unreliable heuristic, anyway. > > So judging from that, glibc users should be fine.
So glibc does use it and you will change behaviour
> > I disagree - firstly because of not breaking stuff, and secondly because > > it separates two discussions - merging AppArmor being one of them , and > > the correct behaviour for getcwd & /proc/mounts being the other. > > I agree with the separation of discussion argument. Here are patches that > change getcwd() and /proc/mounts independent of the changes that AppArmor > depends on.
More useful would be AppArmour without the changes to getcwd and /proc/mounts - 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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