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From: Stephen Satchell <satch@concentric.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Yet another design for /proc. Or actually /kernel.
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:35:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011107163407.00dd97c0@10.1.1.42> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9sc79g$413$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <slrn9uj1nf.5lj.spamtrap@dexter.hensema.xs4all.nl>

At 12:58 PM 11/7/01 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Actually, /proc/mounts is currently broken, and is an excellent
>example of why the above statement simply isn't true unless you apply
>another level of indirection: try mounting something on a directory
>the name of which contains whitespace in any form (remember, depending
>on your setup this may be doable by an unprivileged user...)

Good man.

Now you know why I insisted that ALL STRINGS have a standard escape system 
in my less-than-strawman proposal.

You'll find other places in /proc where white space is not necessarily a 
delimiter.  (Too lazy to go find them right now, however.)

Satch


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-08  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-07 19:09 Erik Hensema
2001-11-07 19:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-08  0:54   ` /proc discussions Tim Jansen
2001-11-08  2:23     ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-07 19:42 ` Yet another design for /proc. Or actually /kernel Daniel R. Warner
2001-11-07 22:35   ` Allen Campbell
2001-11-07 20:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-07 21:19   ` Justin A
2001-11-07 23:44 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-08  0:35 ` Stephen Satchell [this message]
     [not found] <w_knop@hotmail.com>
2001-11-07 19:41 ` William Knop
2001-11-08  0:27   ` John Levon
2001-11-08  8:56     ` Erik Hensema
2001-11-08 10:00   ` Remco Post
2001-11-09 16:44     ` Ricky Beam
2001-11-12 13:31       ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-12 14:31         ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-07 21:13 Brenneke, Matthew Jeffrey (UMR-Student)
2001-11-08  0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-08  0:20 ` antirez
2001-11-08  0:32   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-08  0:54   ` David Ford
2001-11-08  1:10     ` antirez
2001-11-08  1:26       ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-08  1:51         ` antirez
2001-11-08  0:44 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-11-08  1:04   ` antirez
2001-11-08  0:55 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-11-08  3:07 ` Stuart Young

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