On Fri 2006-10-06 08:41:56, koos vriezen wrote:
> 2006/10/4, Pavel Machek <[email protected]>:
> >Hi!
> >
> >> Hit by http://bugzilla.scratchbox.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279 I
> >> wondered why such
> >> a change that could break existing setups entered 2.6.18.
> >> Now I can peek through '/proc/<pid of process outside chroot env w/ my
> >> UID>/root' into the
> >> box's root (and that's why scratchbox is broken now).
> >
> >File bug at bugzilla.kernel.org :-).
> >
> >I'm afraid we did not know about this ABI change, and noone using
> >scratchbox tested 2.6.18-rcX...
>
> Well I did google for this before this report and eg.
> http://nchip.livejournal.com/ already mentioned it (but probably
> didn't report it at lkml) and there where some other links.
> But since I couldn't find any info on this new feature, that one can
> now read and write file through the /proc/xx/root link, I ask it here.
> And hopefully, if it's a regression, would be fixed in the stable tree
> ASAP. (Somehow I almost can't believe this change wouldn't show
> immediately in a regression test setup, and there must be a reason for
> opening this door w/o using an axe).
You probably want to do that bugzilla.kernel.org... and yes, this is
kind of bug I can imageine goes in without anyone noticing.
Pavel
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