On 6/21/07, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> It's really not worth getting bothered by. Truth is, big
> >> giant
> >> pathnames break lots of stuff already, both kernel and
> >> userspace.
> >
> >> Just look in /proc for some nice juicy kernel breakage:
> >> cwd, exe, fd/*, maps, mounts, mountstats, root, smaps
> >
> >Well, but we should be fixing that, not adding more. And /proc is
> >info-only, while this is security related code.
>
> Security tools read from /proc, so /proc is security-related.
If some tool relies on pathnames in /proc, that tool is broken... as
is /proc. We should be fixing that.
Running TOMOYO or AppArmor fixes the bug. :-)
You can't get long paths that break /proc if you are
running either. Therefore, one of those is required.
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