Re: Varlinks - how not to break semantics

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
30 Apr 1998 09:02:13 GMT

Followup to: <19980429235213.64627@Elf.mj.gts.cz>
By author: Pavel Machek <pavel@elf.ucw.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> a) Link is processed as varlink if and only if it beggins with ///.
> [normally, you have no reason to prepend ///, so it should be safe]
>

Happens easily if you append paths, and violates POSIX (the only
permitted escapes from the namespace are // and /../).

I still think a per-process namespace is a better idea.

-hpa

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