Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 16:29:32 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Procfs' pointers to files. Message-ID: <38252A5C.2C388485@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911061552120.846-100000@green.myip.org>
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Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > It sounds to me that what you really want are the semantics of a > symbolic link and not the semantics of a hard link. Is it just me, > or does it seem as if the pathname of the executable being stored as > a virtual symlink in procfs as "file" would solve these security > problems? Mmmmm... I like that... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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