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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200807241639.m6OGda4b004216@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w
> rites:
>>    Doesn't OpenBSD have a syscall filtering mechanic where one can restrict
>>    the file paths the program is allowed to access?
> 
> Yes they do.
> 
> Really smart 

  (multithreaded)


> programs modify the strings after the check and get
> to access the files anyway.

though it's not always successful.

It's kind of strange that they don't just copyin the name.

>