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SubjectRe: [TOMOYO 5/9] Memory and pathname management functions.
On 6/21/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> > >> 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.
>
> If some tool relies on pathnames in /proc, that tool is broken... as
> is /proc. We should be fixing that.

Running TOMOYO or AppArmor fixes the bug. :-)
You can't get long paths that break /proc if you are
running either. Therefore, one of those is required.
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