Re: symlinks with permissions

[Trond Myklebust]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:46 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   That's what I'd think as well but it does not as I've just learned and
> tested :) proc_pid_follow_link actually directly gives a dentry of the
> target file without checking permissions on the way.
> 
> 								Honza

I seem to remember that is deliberate, the point being that a symlink
in /proc/*/fd/ may contain a path that refers to a private namespace.

Cheers
  Trond

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