Greg KH wrote: > An inode can point to any number of valid paths to that file. Think of > multiple mounts of a filesystem at different places in the tree. > (Hm, let's mount /dev/hdd8 at /etc, /tmp/etc, /var/etc, and > /home/foo/etc ) > So reconstruction the original path from a inode is almost impossible. How about if modules that want reliable absolute paths just disable the horrible abomination known as multiple mount points? Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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