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    SubjectFwd: [PATCH] Add a /proc/self/exedir link
    > Also there is a very serious problem with suid exectuables.
    > If a non privileged user has write access to the same filesystem
    > the exectuables live on they can create a hard link to those
    > files and change the prefix. Quite possibly getting the suid
    > executables to trust a new set of exectuables.

    Excellent point. This proposal needs to die, but there needs to be some way
    to solve this problem.
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