Re: securety related question...
Erika Pacholleck <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.security |
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[06.10.2002] Bill maltby - LFS Related <-- : > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Erika Pacholleck wrote: > > suddenly a by intention mounted ro partition will be rw, and what you > > believe protected by ro is suddenly deleted via the bound mounting point! > > So? I see no problem with that. Further, it is no different than current > (flawed) *IX implementations for directories. Have some fun, try this. > > Cd to some directory. From another session, rm -rf the directory in whcich > the other is positioned. Now go to the first session again. Do pwd. Then > do "cd ..". Interesting? What do you mean by that? Should I be suprised that bash seems to store the cd'ed path and returns it although that directory had been deleted from another session? Try `pwd -P` and `/bin/pwd` instead ;) Rather a bash matter than flawed directory implementations, or? -- Erika ...---...: pacholleck at nexgo dot de -- Unsubscribe: send email to [email protected] and put 'unsubscribe lfs-security' in the subject header of the message