From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 14 12:40:45 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.180.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B9837B40B; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@big.endian.de) Received: from zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.181.28]) by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA22512; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:40:38 +0200 Received: by zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4537C14E4C; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:40:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:40:39 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Warner Losh Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Bruce Evans , 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> References: <20010814205118.B22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <200108090319.f793JgS63297@green.bikeshed.org> <20010814205118.B22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <200108141854.f7EIsZW17483@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108141854.f7EIsZW17483@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:54:35PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. 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 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