Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:40:39 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kmod.mk Message-ID: <20010814214039.B57112@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> In-Reply-To: <200108141854.f7EIsZW17483@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:54:35PM -0600 References: <20010814205118.B22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <bde@zeta.org.au> <200108090319.f793JgS63297@green.bikeshed.org> <20010814205118.B22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <200108141854.f7EIsZW17483@harmony.village.org>
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Thus spake Warner Losh (imp@harmony.village.org): > : > 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. Exactly, and that's why the current behaviour should be kept. Alex -- WELCOME DATACOMP! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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