Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:42:44 +0400 | From | Pavel Emelyanov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v2 |
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On 08/24/2011 09:36 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> writes: >> >> No and this is the trick - when you readlink it - it give you trash, but >> when you open one - you get exactly the same file as the map points to. > > Isn't that a minor security hole? > > For example if I pass a file descriptor into a chroot process for > reading, and with this interface you can open it for writing too. > I could see this causing problems.
How does it differ from the /proc/pid/fd links?
> -Andi >
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