Re: bug: mount on an open directory succeeds

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 19:07:42 EST


George wrote:
> Non-working:
> 'ls' in /mnt/foo overmounted.
> stat("blah") = /mnt/foo/blah (That directory is different now.)

Very good. Now all you have to do is to find a passage in POSIX 1003.1
that supports or at least allows the interpretation that "foo" means
"path to cwd plus \"foo\"" (instead of "./foo"). I wish you luck ;-)

BTW, while we're at it:

Process A (user) Process B (root)
chroot("/jail"); chdir("/");
                                mount("/dev/secretstuff","/jail");
open("wargames/access-codes"); /* grr */
open("./wargames/access-codes"); /* yeah ! */

Unlikely, but certainly a lot of fun when it happens ...

- Werner

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