Re: [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace

Dave Hansen
2006-07-14T18:42:12Z

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:06 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 11:18 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> /proc/<pid>/fd/...
> >> /proc/<pid>/exe
> >> /proc/<pid>/cwd
> >>
> >> It isn't quite the same as you are actually opening a second
> >> copy of the file descriptor but the essence is the same.
> >
> > Last I checked, those were symlinks and didn't work for things like
> > deleted files. Am I wrong?
>
> Yes. They are not really symlinks.
>
> Wanting to have an executable that was deleted after it was done
> executing. I wrote it to a file. opened it, unlinked it, set close
> on exec, and the exec'd it with /proc/self/fd/N.

Well, on one hand, it makes checkpoints with deleted files easier ;)

Now that I'm actually looking at the code, isn't
proc_fd_access_allowed()'s permission just derived from ptrace
permissions? It doesn't seem to involve uids directly at all!

-- Dave