On 6/21/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/