From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 14 11:54:53 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0F837B407; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7EIsZq09013; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7EIsZW17483; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200108141854.f7EIsZW17483@harmony.village.org> To: Alexander Langer Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kmod.mk Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:51:20 +0200." <20010814205118.B22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> References: <20010814205118.B22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <200108090319.f793JgS63297@green.bikeshed.org> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:35 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010814205118.B22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> Alexander Langer writes: : > amazingly inconsistent... I can kldload ./file.ko, but not kldload file.ko, : > though those are both correct relative paths. kldload(8) should have : > absolutely no trouble checking the cwd for existence of a path before giving : > up. Why don't we just replace that search algorithm with one less broken? : : This is a security issue. This is the "don't have . in root's path" consequence. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message