Re: Pathnames in /proc

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Jun 1998 19:09:06 GMT

Followup to: <199806250741.DAA21300@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>
By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There is no need to "fix" /proc/mounts, since untrusted users
> can't supply the data. Trusted users must be trusted to not
> abuse the file format.
>
> The /proc/#/foo files could be a real problem.
>

Not necessarily true (think of an automounter using volume labels.)
Either way, it should be bloody legal for root to have a weird
mountpoint without breaking the universe! This is one of the reasons
why I can't use /proc/mounts to solve some nasty autofs problems!

-hpa

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