Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 07:47:00 EST


> without me being worried about CGI security. Mounting devpts,
> devfs, proc and ipcfs into each customers chrooted environment
> would be a PITA and using an automatic access method to such
> filesystems via magic filenames would greatly help in this
> configuration.

On the contrary, it would allow them to easily leak each others private
data from the ipc space and expose things like /dev/mem to a potential
hack where it was not exposed before.

It only looks a good idea until you think about it.

Alan

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